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From: mouse@mcgill-vision.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Public Domain Yacc (Important)
Message-ID: <663@mcgill-vision.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 20-Feb-87 09:47:17 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb 20 09:47:17 1987
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In article <867@epimass.UUCP>, jbuck@epimass.UUCP (Joe Buck) writes:
> Someone could post the entire Unix source to the net.  It would then
> be in the public domain.

Actually it wouldn't.  Just making something generally available,
particularly if you broke a licensing agreement to do so, doesn't cause
the owner to lose their ownership.

However, something interesting did occur to me, apropos of which....

In article <1186@husc6.UUCP>, ddl@husc6.UUCP (Dan Lanciani) writes:
> Maybe all of unix has become public domain and everyone is afraid to
> admit it :-)

Consider that if I fix a bug in, say, the kernel, and post the fix, I
will do so in the form of a context diff.  This will include maybe ten
lines of the original code.  Has anyone considered that collecting all
these little pieces every time someone posts a context diff could add
up to a fairly complete set of sources?

Of course, I really rather doubt that it's come close to a complete set
of sources yet (I also rather doubt that any system would live long
enough for a significant portion of it to leak out this way).  But it
makes an interesting thing to think about.

					der Mouse

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