AT&T vs. CSS (PC/Tools)
Wolf N. Paul
wnp at dcs.UUCP
Mon Jun 6 22:03:54 AEST 1988
In article <395 at hotlr.ATT> chuck at hotlr.UUCP (54316 - C J Luciano hotld) writes:
>
> > The reason I say this is that there have been other, commercially more
> > significant, UNIX-lookalikes which AT&T did not bother. Also, when PC/VI
> > first made its appearance, a friend of mine in the Boston area told me
> > he had heard from a friend who had access to both UNIX and PC/VI source
> > code that the sources resembled each other so closely, down to flaws in
> > the coding style, that he was conviced PC/VI was a rip-off.
>
>I believe that AT&T would not be the one who should be concerned here since
>VI is licensed by AT&T from University of California at Berkeley. Therefore
>it's UCB's problem.
However, in order to have access to BSD source you need a UNIX source license,
which these folks presumably did not have. Also, I would not be surprised
to find out that vi/ex contains large chunks of ed source.
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