yacc: public domain?

Guy Middleton gamiddleton at thunder.UUCP
Tue Jan 8 04:57:20 AEST 1985


In article <4866 at utzoo.UUCP> henry at utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) writes:
>> 						Over the years, thousands of
>> 	unprivileged users have been given unrestricted access to /usr/include
>> 	and all other cat-able files.  So where is the secret?
>
>Anyone who has granted access to this stuff without imposing a non-disclosure
>requirement as a condition of access is in violation of their Unix licence,
>and AT&T could sue them for their shirts over it.

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.
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