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From: wes@obie.UUCP (Barnacle Wes)
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Subject: Re: Please remove PD-YACC sources from your machine IMMEDIATELY
Summary: Correction
Message-ID: <107@obie.UUCP>
Date: 17 Jul 88 08:40:57 GMT
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In article <99@obie.UUCP> wes@obie.UUCP (Barnacle Wes) writes:
% Yes, most of the tools MKS produces are (debugged, well-ported) licensed
% versions of gin-yoo-ine AT&T products.
 
In article <142@dcs.UUCP>, wnp@dcs.UUCP (Wolf N. Paul) writes:
> Would you mind stating the source of this information?
> 
> According to a posting by Alex White of MKS a few weeks ago, the MKS Toolkit
> does not contain any AT&T source code; the tools are complete re-
> implementations rather than ports of UNIX tools.

You are right, I have been corrected on this.  The MKS programs are MKS'
unique implementations that faithfully implement the functionality of
the AT&T kits.  My source (to go un-named, he's even more embarrased than
I am) was actually speaking of a ksh from Aspen Software (I think -
after this I'm not going to stick m_y_ neck out again).

The point I made after this stupidity is still valid, however - the
original poster was asking about whether or not AT&T licensed their
software products for re-sale to markets other than Unix.  The answer is
yes they do.
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