Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!epiwrl!epimass!jbuck From: jbuck@epimass.EPI.COM (Joe Buck) Newsgroups: comp.sources.d Subject: Re: Please remove PD-YACC sources from your machine IMMEDIATELY Message-ID: <2262@epimass.EPI.COM> Date: 5 Jul 88 17:20:25 GMT References: <3532@rpp386.UUCP> <880001@vx2.GBA.NYU.EDU> Reply-To: jbuck@epimass.EPI.COM (Joe Buck) Organization: Entropic Processing, Inc., Cupertino, CA Lines: 20 In article <880001@vx2.GBA.NYU.EDU> spector@vx2.GBA.NYU.EDU (David HM Spector) writes: >Now, wait a second!!! Don't be so quick to jump to ATT's call... I haven't >seen the posting (wish I had..) but just because something is called YACC >doesn't mean that its automatically owned by ATT. If these sources had >copyright notices all of them it was pretty silly to post them, but if not >its not against the law (yet) to write a YACC replacement. There is a legal YACC replacement called "bison", from the Gnu people. The one AT&T is complaining about is illegal. Drop the illegal one, and get the legal one. AT&T source code is protected by trade secret as well as copyright. If you read AT&T source code of a program and then write your own version, AT&T can still get you. The GNU people have been very careful never to read AT&T source code for this reason. -- - Joe Buck {uunet,ucbvax,pyramid,}!epimass.epi.com!jbuck jbuck@epimass.epi.com Old Arpa mailers: jbuck%epimass.epi.com@uunet.uu.net If you leave your fate in the hands of the gods, don't be surprised if they have a few grins at your expense. - Tom Robbins