yacc: public domain?

Kurt Guntheroth kurt at fluke.UUCP
Wed Jan 9 04:08:25 AEST 1985


Remember there is a class of UNIX(tm) users who are not routinely subject to
non-disclosure agreements, using systems where access to sources is not
typically restricted.  These users are college students and professors, and
hackers who break into these systems as well.

Can AT&T make a strong claim that these sources are a secret in view of the
probability that any given software engineer could have perused them at
length as a student?  Does the trade secret act deal with the legality of
some hacker breaking into a university computer, taking accessible
information, and using/distributing/publishing it?  Doesn't the
non-disclosure agreement only cover non-disclosure of information you could
not easily obtain elsewhere?

Go for it oh legal eagles.
-- 
Kurt Guntheroth
John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc.
{uw-beaver,decvax!microsof,ucbvax!lbl-csam,allegra,ssc-vax}!fluke!kurt



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