Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2.fluke 9/24/84; site fluke.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxj!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!ssc-vax!fluke!kurt From: kurt@fluke.UUCP (Kurt Guntheroth) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards,net.legal Subject: Re: yacc: public domain? Message-ID: <217@vax2.fluke.UUCP> Date: Tue, 8-Jan-85 13:08:25 EST Article-I.D.: vax2.217 Posted: Tue Jan 8 13:08:25 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 11-Jan-85 22:58:35 EST Organization: John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc., Everett, WA Lines: 18 Xref: watmath net.unix-wizards:11430 net.legal:1262 Remember there is a class of UNIX(tm) users who are not routinely subject to non-disclosure agreements, using systems where access to sources is not typically restricted. These users are college students and professors, and hackers who break into these systems as well. Can AT&T make a strong claim that these sources are a secret in view of the probability that any given software engineer could have perused them at length as a student? Does the trade secret act deal with the legality of some hacker breaking into a university computer, taking accessible information, and using/distributing/publishing it? Doesn't the non-disclosure agreement only cover non-disclosure of information you could not easily obtain elsewhere? Go for it oh legal eagles. -- Kurt Guntheroth John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc. {uw-beaver,decvax!microsof,ucbvax!lbl-csam,allegra,ssc-vax}!fluke!kurt