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Subject: Re: Ownership of uuslave.c -- particula
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Date: Mon, 16-Feb-87 21:51:00 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb 16 21:51:00 1987
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Nf-From: gorgo.UUCP!bsteve    Feb 16 20:51:00 1987


In-Reply-To: gnu@hoptoad.UUCP in comp.mail.uucp

>I'm not going to stop working with the code based on rumors and scare
>tactics.  I just wanna get the facts, ma'an.

Ok here are some facts:

>I hereby call upon AT&T, the company and its employees, to come out and
>state whether public use of uuslave.c is believed to violate any of
>AT&T's rights (eg copyrights, trade secrets) or licenses (eg Unix
>source licenses).

I must agree that it is apparent that the uuslave.c code is not directly
derived from any version of uucp that I have seen. As for licenses and
trade secrets.... I can't comment on that. It is an issue for attorneys.

>  In the absence of such a claim by AT&T, I will
>continue to assume that the code is public domain, and that even in the
>unlikely event that there is some AT&T involvement in uuslave, the
>company has decided to abandon any claim it has in the program.

This might be unwise as it does not constitute a legal notification unless
it is served by mail to a member of the corportation with power of attorney.
(I'm not being a crumb, its just federal law.)

>AT&T employees, please forward this to the licensing department or whoever
>handles these kind of questions.

I suggest that you contact the corporate administration for UNIX System
licensing at AT&T, Greensboro, NC. (They are in the phone book :-) about
the issue of licensing. I'm sure that they will try to be helpful, they're
very nice folks.

(The following is a personal statement and does not represent an opinion
 of AT&T - My Employer)

Personally, I see no problem with what you have done and continue to do...
Then again, I am not a lawyer... just a hacker that works for a real big
company. Fortunately for us all, most of the other folks working there are
also pretty reasonable people.

   Very best wishes,
    Steve Blasingame (AT&T Oklahoma City)
    ihnp4!occrsh!gorgo!bsteve

Please point all flames on this issue to /dev/null or they will bounce back.