[comp.sources.d] AT&T and public domain software

alanf%smile@Sun.COM (Alan Fargusson) (07/07/88)

Can anyone tell me where I can send source code so that AT&T can look at it and
tell me if it is safe for me to release it to the public domain.

I have a diff program that I wrote and I would like to release it.  I am
concerned that I might get into trouble since I did have access to the UNIX
source when I wrote it, and I use a very similar algorithm.

I must say that no one at any of the companies I have worked for ever said
anything about trade secret agreements with AT&T.  Most have had me sign an
agreement with them, but not all have.  Universities are very bad about this. 
I don't think any of the universities that my friends go to have had them sign
any agreement.
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