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From: zemon@felix.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix,comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: uucp source copyright status - IMPORTANT
Message-ID: <2473@felix.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 24-Mar-87 01:29:44 EST
Article-I.D.: felix.2473
Posted: Tue Mar 24 01:29:44 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 26-Mar-87 00:41:18 EST
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Reply-To: zemon@felix.UUCP (Art Zemon)
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Summary: You cannot copy UUCP


If you examine your Unix license you will find attached to
it a *large* list of files which constitute what you have
licensed.  Notice is not in the files because all of the
files are explicitely called out in the contract.

The list makes pretty boring reading since it goes
something like this:
    /bin/adb
    /bin/at
    /bin/cat
    ...
but it lists *every* file which is licensed AT&T property.


Why not give up on UUCP and write a replacement using the
Kermit protocol?  Doing so wouldn't be much more work than
a small program which invokes C-Kermit instead of uucico
and Kermit really is public domain -- and well documented
and understood!
-- 
	-- Art Zemon
	   FileNet Corporation
	   Costa Mesa, California
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