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Subject: Re: MS-DOS Yacc
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Date: Fri, 27-Mar-87 15:50:00 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar 27 15:50:00 1987
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Nf-From: gorgo.UUCP!bsteve    Mar 27 14:50:00 1987


>I beleive it is as I have seen no copyright notice in the documen-
>tation or on the screen. Still this will take a few days for me to determine
>wheter or not it is PD. I will either post the program at the beginning of
>next week, or let you know I can't.
>  Sorry for the delay.

If you wish assistance in identifying the program you can contact the people
at AT&T directly at 1-800-828-UNIX and they will be happy to assist you. If
that fails you may contact me directly and I'll try to help. However, YACC was
a sufficiently significant program that its likes have not been duplicated in
nearly 10 years since it was first developed. The probability is *very* high
that the program that you have is in fact UNIX YACC ported and recompiled. DO
NOT distribute it without first having written assurances from AT&T (who guards
important trade secrets very jealously), or they are very likely to sue the
pants off of you. I cannot speak for either the UNIX licensing group or for
AT&T corporate legal, but having a rather substantial interest in AT&T myself,
along with 2 million other investors, I might sue decide to you too (just to
put the magnitude of this in perspective).

   Steve Blasingame (AT&T Oklahoma City)
   bsteve@gorgo.att.com
   ihnp4!gorgo!bsteve