Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ncoast.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!cwruecmp!atvax!ncoast!root From: root@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery (the tame hacker on the North Coast)) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards,net.legal Subject: Re: yacc: public domain? Message-ID: <540@ncoast.UUCP> Date: Mon, 14-Jan-85 14:34:59 EST Article-I.D.: ncoast.540 Posted: Mon Jan 14 14:34:59 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 18-Jan-85 02:04:58 EST References: <6779@brl-tgr.ARPA> <2114@umcp-cs.UUCP> <1276@orca.UUCP> <288@desint.UUCP> <4866@utzoo.UUCP> <185@thunder.UUCP> Reply-To: bsa@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery (the tame hacker on the North Coast)) Organization: The North Coast Xenix System, Cleveland Lines: 26 Xref: watmath net.unix-wizards:11541 net.legal:1318 Summary: > Article <185@thunder.UUCP>, from gamiddleton@thunder.UUCP (Guy Middleton) +---------------- | In article <4866@utzoo.UUCP> henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) writes: | >> Over the years, thousands of | >> unprivileged users have been given unrestricted access to /usr/include | >> and all other cat-able files. So where is the secret? | > | >Anyone who has granted access to this stuff without imposing a non-disclosure | >requirement as a condition of access is in violation of their Unix licence, | >and AT&T could sue them for their shirts over it. | | Are you saying that *anybody* who uses a system should be made to sign a | non-disclosure agreement? I doubt that any university (with several hundred | students on a typical Unix machine) could force all of them to sign any such | thing. At which point we can drop Unix and its paranoid owner, AT&T, in the dungheap and go for something sane. Maybe if we push this, AT&T will get it together (if it CAN)... --bsa -- Brandon Allbery @ decvax!cwruecmp!ncoast!bsa (..ncoast!tdi1!bsa business) 6504 Chestnut Road, Independence, Ohio 44131 +1 216 524 1416 (or what have you) Who said you had to be (a) a poor programmer or (b) a security hazard to be a hacker?