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From: ron@brl-sem.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: "Public Domain" YACC - AT&T Position on Proprietary and Copyrighted Software
Message-ID: <662@brl-sem.ARPA>
Date: Fri, 27-Feb-87 14:17:19 EST
Article-I.D.: brl-sem.662
Posted: Fri Feb 27 14:17:19 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 1-Mar-87 09:24:33 EST
References: <6662@alice.uUCp> <691@rayssd.RAY.COM>
Organization: Electronic Brain Research Lab
Lines: 19
Keywords: yacc, copyright, proprietary, "corrective action"

In article <691@rayssd.RAY.COM>, gmp@rayssd.RAY.COM (Gregory M. Paris) writes:
> In article <6662@alice.uUCp> fcp@alice.UUCP writes:
> >                                           Otis Wilson
> >                                           General Manager
> >                                           AT&T UNIX(r) Software Licensing
> 
> Doesn't this belong in talk.threats or something similar?  Really,

Give me a break.  There has been a lot of misguided talk on the nets
over the exact nature of protection of UNIX and copyrights/trade secrets
in general.  Recently, there has been a large proportion of misinformation,
especially with regard to GNU and MINIX.  It is refreshing to see some
exact information, posted to the correct news groups, without a lot of
useless rhetoric and flaming attached to it.  Despite what you think
of the rest of AT&T, we have always been given the straight story from
Otis Wilson, Al Arms, and the rest who were in charge of licensing
UNIX over the years.

-Ron