Please remove PD-YACC sources from your machine IMMEDIATELY

[Wolf N. Paul]

In article <3532 at rpp386.UUCP> jfh at rpp386 (John F. Haugh III) writes:
>
>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.
>--
>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.

This raises a couple of questions:

1. Are they reacting to the _name_ YACC, or did they look at the actual
   files John had on his system and determine that they consisted of
   or contained AT&T-owned source?

2. If they are reacting to the name YACC, does this mean that they ARE
   moving towards considering the names of *NIX utilities their property
   which no-one else may use? If so, where does this leave such products
   as MINIX, MKS, etc.?

It might be useful if Mr. Wilson of AT&T could address these two questions;
he or his colleagues obviously read news or they would not have known about
John's posting.
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