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From: spector@vx2.GBA.NYU.EDU (David HM Spector)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: Please remove PD-YACC sources from your machine IMMEDIATELY
Message-ID: <880001@vx2.GBA.NYU.EDU>
Date: 4 Jul 88 05:39:00 GMT
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Organization: New York University
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Now, wait a second!!!   Don't be so quick to jump to ATT's call... I haven't 
seen the posting (wish I had..) but just because something is called YACC 
doesn't mean that its automatically owned by ATT.  If these sources had 
copyright notices all of them it was pretty silly to post them, but if not 
its not against the law (yet) to write a YACC replacement.  If it were against
the law Larry Wall and others would be in deep bat sh*t.   I think ATT would 
probably have to PROVE that the sources you posted we indeed _exact_ copies
of ATT proprietary code.  If you posted sources in good faith being as sure as 
possible that the code you were posting was PD or posted with the permission of
the author, you're cool.  

Don't be bullied by BS from people just 'cause they have large names behind 
them....
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