Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mandrill!gatech!rutgers!cmcl2!vx2!spector 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 References: <3532@rpp386.UUCP> Organization: New York University Lines: 23 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.... DHMS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- David HM Spector New York University Senior Systems Programmer Graduate School of Business Arpa: SPECTOR@GBA.NYU.EDU Academic Computing Center UUCP:...!{allegra,rocky,harvard}!cmcl2!spector 90 Trinity Place, Rm C-4 HamRadio: N2BCA MCIMail: DSpector New York, New York 10006 AppleLink: D1161 CompuServe: 71260,1410 (212) 285-6080 "What computer puts out work like this?" "Hire us and we'll tell you." XYZZYGLORP