yacc: public domain?

Jeff Lee jeff at gatech.UUCP
Thu Jan 10 07:11:25 AEST 1985


> Are you saying that *anybody* who uses a system should be made to sign a
> non-disclosure agreement?  I doubt that any university (with several hundred
> students on a typical Unix machine) could force all of them to sign any such
> thing.
> ________
> 	Guy Middleton, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ont.
> 	..{allegra,clyde,decvax,utcsrgv}!watmath!thunder!gamiddleton

Here at Georgia Tech, anyone who is given an account on the Unix(tm....giggle)
system/systems has been required to sign a non-disclosure license because
the source has been on the systems. The license specified that everyone who
was to have access to this stuff has got to sign their firstborn male child
away or look at one heck of a lawsuit (I assume).

I have not heard that the same is required of binary-only licensees(sp?)
which makes me wonder if reverse-engineering would be legal in that case.
I do not know of any binary-only folks who require non-disclosure licenses.

	Jeff Lee
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