Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!vx2!spector From: spector@vx2.GBA.NYU.EDU (David HM Spector) Newsgroups: comp.sources.d Subject: Re: Please remove PD-YACC sources ... [history repeats..] Message-ID: <880002@vx2.GBA.NYU.EDU> Date: 5 Jul 88 18:27:00 GMT References: <540@yunexus.UUCP> Organization: New York University Lines: 26 If the code posted to the net is indeed _THE_ AT&T YACC, then of COURSE it should be removed, and should never have been posted! I didn't mean to imply that AT&T should not protect its rights, I meant that since the posting was unclear, and the letter as posted to comp.sources.d was sufficiently vague that one should not just jump becuase AT&T says "jump". The GNU Project and many others have written YACC replacements in the past. I don't think AT&T owns a trademark (I could be wrong.. I haven't actually looked) on the name YACC, and one might argue successfully in court that in its domain, the term YACC is used often and freely enough (and AT&T didn't aggressively seek to defend its trademark) that the term YACC has joined the ranks of terms like "XEROX", "KLEENEX" and "COKE" in being "a part of the language" and are now in the public domain. Note carefully however that "Kleenex Brand Tissues", "Xerox copiers" (et al..), and "Coca-Cola" are still very much trademarks of their respective owners... _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