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From: wayne@fmsrl7.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: "Public Domain" YACC - AT&T Position on Proprietary and Copyrighted Software
Message-ID: <821@fmsrl7.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 26-Feb-87 09:41:12 EST
Article-I.D.: fmsrl7.821
Posted: Thu Feb 26 09:41:12 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 3-Mar-87 22:12:56 EST
References: <6662@alice.uUCp>
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Reply-To: wayne@fmsrl7.UUCP (Michael R. Wayne)
Organization: Ford Motor Company, Scientific Research Labs, Dearborn, MI
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Keywords: yacc, copyright, proprietary, "corrective action"

In article <6662@alice.uUCp> fcp@alice.UUCP writes:
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>AT&T SOFTWARE
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>software agreements. We work diligently to protect our proprietary interests.
		      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

	Seems to me that if you were working DILIGENTLY, you would provide
an address for e-mail where usenet users could solicit information as to 
whether something was public domain.  How long have these queries been flying
around before a response finally came from AT&T?  We saw EMPIRE source code
posted and the owner responded within 24 hours!  Now THAT is diligence!  Most
of the users on the net have a genuine concern to keep proprietary code off.
Can't it be made easier for them to maintain their ethics?

	BTW, the poster didn't even answer the question of yacc's source...
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Michael R. Wayne           Working at (but not employed by) Ford Motor Company
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