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From: phil@amdcad.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: "Public Domain" YACC - AT&T Position on Proprietary and Copyrighted Software
Message-ID: <15021@amdcad.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 1-Mar-87 12:49:26 EST
Article-I.D.: amdcad.15021
Posted: Sun Mar  1 12:49:26 1987
Date-Received: Mon, 2-Mar-87 07:15:31 EST
References: <6662@alice.uUCp> <691@rayssd.RAY.COM>
Reply-To: phil@amdcad.UUCP (Phil Ngai)
Organization: Advanced Micro Devices, Sunnyvale, California
Lines: 25
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:
>> Please be aware we are tracing down a recent exposure of some of our
>> source code on this network, and we have, and will continue to take,
>> corrective action.
>  
>>                                           Otis Wilson
>>                                           General Manager
>>                                           AT&T UNIX(r) Software Licensing
>
>Doesn't this belong in talk.threats or something similar?  Really,
>what purpose does this serve?  Should we all now go cower under our

No, this belongs here. Don't you recall all the (obviously false to
me) speculation that if someone posted Unix source code, AT&T would no
longer have rights to it? This is not a proper thing to do (no more
proper than my stealing your car) and AT&T has a right to protect its
property, and a right to remind people that Unix is their property. 

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