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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
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Posted: Mon Jul  6 16:20:29 1987
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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.