GUTHERY%ASC%sdr.slb.com@RELAY.CS.NET (guthery%asc@sdr.slb.com) (07/06/87)
I've seen discussion on this board of the porting of PCC to distinctly non-Unix systems. Since the Bell listeners haven't called out their legal hounds, is it the commonly held view that PCC is in the public domain?
markb@mitisft.Convergent.COM (Mark Beyer) (07/06/87)
In article <8172@brl-adm.ARPA>, GUTHERY%ASC%sdr.slb.com@RELAY.CS.NET (guthery%asc@sdr.slb.com) writes: > Is it the commonly held view that PCC is in the public > domain? I doubt it. pcc (or its derivatives) are what AT&T distributes with Unix, which is certainly not free.
gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn ) (07/06/87)
In article <8172@brl-adm.ARPA> GUTHERY%ASC%sdr.slb.com@RELAY.CS.NET (guthery%asc@sdr.slb.com) writes:
-I've seen discussion on this board of the porting of PCC to distinctly
-non-Unix systems. Since the Bell listeners haven't called out their
-legal hounds, is it the commonly held view that PCC is in the public
-domain?
It doesn't matter if it's commonly held or not, PCC is NOT in the public
domain. PCC ports must be licensed or otherwise authorized by AT&T.jss@hector..UUCP (Jerry Schwarz) (07/06/87)
In article <8172@brl-adm.ARPA> GUTHERY%ASC%sdr.slb.com@RELAY.CS.NET writes: >I've seen discussion on this board of the porting of PCC to distinctly >non-Unix systems. Since the Bell listeners haven't called out their >legal hounds, is it the commonly held view that PCC is in the public >domain? I did post something about this a while ago. I will repeat. PCC is not in the public domain. Whether AT&T or "Bell" (since the divestiture they are not the same, but both have some rights in PCC) goes after any violator is determined by many pragmatic factors. Jerry Schwarz Former member of AT&T UNIX Languages Department.
ron@topaz.rutgers.edu.UUCP (07/08/87)
AT&T will sell you a source license for any machine, even if there are no ports yet done. We used to have a license for our pet DEC-10 at JHU, but we never had any intentions of running UNIX on it. Just things like grep and the editor. -Ron