Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!columbia!rutgers!ucla-cs!zen!ucbvax!ulysses!hector!jss From: jss@hector..UUCP (Jerry Schwarz) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: PCC in Public Domain? Message-ID: <2709@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com> Date: Mon, 6-Jul-87 16:20:29 EDT Article-I.D.: ulysses.2709 Posted: Mon Jul 6 16:20:29 1987 Date-Received: Wed, 8-Jul-87 00:38:08 EDT References: <8172@brl-adm.ARPA> Sender: daemon@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com Reply-To: jss@hector (Jerry Schwarz) Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Murray Hill Lines: 13 In article <8172@brl-adm.ARPA> GUTHERY%ASC%sdr.slb.com@RELAY.CS.NET writes: >I've seen discussion on this board of the porting of PCC to distinctly >non-Unix systems. Since the Bell listeners haven't called out their >legal hounds, is it the commonly held view that PCC is in the public >domain? I did post something about this a while ago. I will repeat. PCC is not in the public domain. Whether AT&T or "Bell" (since the divestiture they are not the same, but both have some rights in PCC) goes after any violator is determined by many pragmatic factors. Jerry Schwarz Former member of AT&T UNIX Languages Department.