Xref: utzoo news.admin:2937 news.sysadmin:784 comp.sources.wanted:4467 comp.sources.d:2388 comp.unix.xenix:2596 Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!husc6!bloom-beacon!mit-eddie!killer!vector!rpp386!jfh From: jfh@rpp386.UUCP (John F. Haugh II) Newsgroups: news.admin,news.sysadmin,comp.sources.wanted,comp.sources.d,comp.unix.xenix Subject: Please remove PD-YACC sources from your machine IMMEDIATELY Message-ID: <3532@rpp386.UUCP> Date: 3 Jul 88 17:04:34 GMT Organization: Big "D" Home for Wayward Hackers Lines: 84 [ Sorry for the wide posting. This really is very important ] Below is a copy of a letter which was received recently from AT&T. This letter explains the status of the ``Public Domain'' YACC which I recently posted about. Because of the incredible speed (heavy sarcasm) with which the USMail delivers letters, I didn't receive the delivery notice until last week. You should receive this posting before O. L. Wilson receives his signed and dated letter back via U. S. Mail. One interesting thing about this letter, the city in the address was listed as Renner, which is the same city South Western Bell thinks I live in for billing purposes. Renner ceased to exist several years ago when Dallas annexed it. How do you think AT&T found out where I live? Frightening isn't it? Especially when you consider the correct address is given in the UUCP maps? ;-) ;-) ;-). Immediately after the letter is a list of systems which may have received a copy of YACC via anonymous UUCP. Please check that your system is not listed, and if it is, that you do not have a copy of this software on your machine. Unfortunately I don't have the logs going back this far, but if your machine is listed, it has been in contact with rpp386 at some time during the period when YACC was available. Some of the machines are within the AT&T system, please, I don't have time to check the organization each machine belongs to. If you are an AT&T source licensee, you obviously don't have to worry. I think ... Also, the system names have been truncated to seven characters, courtesy of UUCP and the R_stat file. If you system name matches one listed below to seven characters, please consider your system to have been included in the list below. Thanks, - John. -- Dear Mr. Haugh: There was a netnews article on April 19, 1988 announcing that you had a list of files that [ are ] public domain. One of the files listed [ was ] YACC. YACC is not public domain software. The software is AT&T's intellectual property obtainable by licensing only. We must have your assurance that you have ceased distributing copies of YACC and that you have destroyed all copies in your possession. You may certify that you have ceased making and/or distributing copies of YACC and that you have destroyed all copies of the software in your possession by signing and dating the attached copy of this letter in the spaces provided therefor and returning such copy to us. If we receive such signed and dated copy within thirty (30) days, we will consider the matter closed. Very truly yours, (signed) O L Wilson -- FCPS IrsXeni ajmsys alice aquinas arcoexr atina atlpyr base16 basis bbussc bby-bc bellboy bigtex bms-at boake2 bpa bradley brave brcbkly brspyr1 bsadrc camber catuc ccd700 cesbws cimcor cline01 cloud9 cocktri cognos comdesi convex coplex corpane cp1 crdos1 crlabs cronus csccat daisy dalsqnt daver deincr dhPC-AT dhpcat didsgn entropy fasolt fbmtl fmsrl5 fmsrl7 frito ganglio gcfast gort grc gsg gunnix happym hombre hpxcnca htsrmx htwoo jarsun1 jassys jlsoft jmdst joshua killer kontron lan000 ldcx25 lngnck loci lotus madnix magnus marob mcl merk mipseas mjbtn mmd2 mpuls1 mpx1 ninja nsacray obiwan oncoast ontenv otishq ozdaltx pigs pollux qetzal raider rcf reason redwood rush sauron schen sherpa1 sialis simon skipnyc smergol soft21 spdyne spked srhqla stanton sulaco swlabs t9103 tau-cet tegan tester texsun tness5 tness7 top toplog ttdcl1 u-word ucmsa upcjsd uxcmb validea vector vijit viusys warble watabox wiuaz wybbs xenix28 xenix38 xnxcws yak ssc cdes wjt3pc xxx spsspyr swbatl hrsw2 infopro ucmdal tanelor mrmarx akinsol oss410 celerit elan rocky ateng n0atp ptisea comnet3 dms-at heaven csiris imsys sfkwj motown banana mp386 dsix2 -- John F. Haugh II +--------- Cute Chocolate Quote --------- HASA, "S" Division | "USENET should not be confused with UUCP: killer!rpp386!jfh | something that matters, like CHOCOLATE" DOMAIN: jfh@rpp386.uucp | -- with my apologizes