Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!houxm!mhuxr!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!wanginst!ucadmus!harvard!seismo!brl-tgr!gwyn From: gwyn@brl-tgr.ARPA Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: public domain? Message-ID: <6780@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Wed, 26-Dec-84 08:19:48 EST Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.6780 Posted: Wed Dec 26 08:19:48 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 28-Dec-84 05:06:19 EST References: <6779@brl-tgr.ARPA> Organization: Ballistic Research Lab Lines: 14 > . the object code from a proprietary C compiler is itself proprietary. > . the executable binary of a C program is proprietary if it uses any of > the standard library functions, which are proprietary. > . any program written in yacc is proprietary, because the algorithms > output by yacc are proprietary. > . the proprietary ownership of all of this is good ol' Bell. All false, with the possible exception of yacc's parser which I have never heard declared non-proprietary by AT&T. They have specifically stated that C library binaries linked in with an application have a waiver so that one may distribute them without requiring an AT&T license. The code generated from your own sources by a compiler cannot by any stretch of the legal imagination be considered property of the compiler vendor.