yacc: public domain?

[Brandon Allbery the tame hacker on the North Coast]

> Article <185 at thunder.UUCP>, from gamiddleton at thunder.UUCP (Guy Middleton)
+----------------
| 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.

At which point we can drop Unix and its paranoid owner, AT&T, in the
dungheap and go for something sane.  Maybe if we push this, AT&T will
get it together (if it CAN)...

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