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From: kent@tifsie.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: GOTO statement considered suspicious
Message-ID: <407@tifsie.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 15-Jun-87 08:48:59 EDT
Article-I.D.: tifsie.407
Posted: Mon Jun 15 08:48:59 1987
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in article <1208@botter.cs.vu.nl>, ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) says:
> 
> It seems that the Minix Compiler is buggy in respect to goto's.
> I noticed this the following way: I copied the source of Yacc from a
> 4.2BSD machine (VAX) and changed the headerfile with the definition
> of the number of bits/int.
[ Remainder deleted -- RAK ]
> ---
> The opinions possibly reflected herein are my own, and not necessarily those
> of someone else I might be connected with. They MAY, however, be.
> --- Olaf (Rhialto) Seibert...  u613042@hnykun11.bitnet

Unless someone's changed the source licensing rules from both The University
of California at Berkeley, and AT&T, then Mr. Seibert could be in for a few
nasty letters from some legal types.  Presuming that he has a source license
for ONLY his VAX (and not his IBM PC), then he has violated his license in
that he has ported source from the VAX to the IBM PC, contrary to explicit
limitations stated in the source license.

While I won't go so far as to say that nobody has ever done this sort of thing
before ;-) it's downright foolhardy to publish it to the whole world.  I can
have sympathies for Mr. Seibert if he says that he couldn't recreate the
bug he saw with a non-proprietary source: we occaisionally find "curiosities"
and other not nice things in our Ultrix programs, but cannot demonstrate them
to DEC because of the proprietary nature of the program.

Gee, isn't copyright law FUN ???
---

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