Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site mtxinu.UUCP
Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!zehntel!dual!unisoft!mtxinu!ed
From: ed@mtxinu.UUCP (Ed Gould)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards,net.legal
Subject: Re: yacc: public domain?
Message-ID: <239@mtxinu.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 6-Jan-85 23:16:52 EST
Article-I.D.: mtxinu.239
Posted: Sun Jan  6 23:16:52 1985
Date-Received: Wed, 9-Jan-85 01:45:03 EST
References: <6779@brl-tgr.ARPA> <2114@umcp-cs.UUCP> <1276@orca.UUCP>, <288@desint.UUCP> <4866@utzoo.UUCP>
Organization: mt Xinu, Berkeley, CA
Lines: 18
Xref: watmath net.unix-wizards:11402 net.legal:1238

> Whether it is in the public domain in practice is another story.  Quite
> possibly one could argue that illicit access to Unix materials, including
> sources, is so common that AT&T cannot realistically claim that the
> stuff is secret any more.  The problem is, AT&T would fight such a
> contention tooth and nail, and being right is not comforting when you
> are facing a legal battle of that magnitude and expense.
> -- 
> 				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
> 				{allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry

Henry's hit the nail right on the head.  Most of us aren't willing
to take this (probably small) risk because of the potentially
enormous (probably out of business) expense.

-- 
Ed Gould		    mt Xinu, 739 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA  94710  USA
{ucbvax,decvax}!mtxinu!ed   +1 415 644 0146
			    (I'd rather not be parochial.)