jh@efd.lth.se (Joergen Haegg) (01/30/91)
I wonder if anyone have written a PD uucp? There is the uupc package, but only for PC. Maybe some gnu-projekt? -- -- Joergen Haegg jh@efd.lth.se postmaster@efd.lth.se System manager @ efd 046-107492 Lund Institute of Technology Sweden
mra@srchtec.uucp (Michael Almond) (02/02/91)
In article <1991Jan29.192655.7989@lth.se> jh@efd.lth.se (Joergen Haegg) writes: > >I wonder if anyone have written a PD uucp? > >There is the uupc package, but only for PC. > >Maybe some gnu-projekt? At one time there was GNUUUCP, but it seems to have disappeared from prep.ai.mit.edu (you can still find it on uunet.uu.net). However, the 4.2BSD uucp is public domain. I got my copy from uu.psi.com in the /src directory. I've install and am using it on a DECsystem 3100 running Ultrix 4.1. -- Michael R. Almond (Georgia Tech Alumnus) mra@srchtec.uucp (registered) search technology, inc. mra@searchtech.com 4725 peachtree corners cir., suite 200 emory!stiatl!srchtec!mra norcross, georgia 30092 (404) 441-1457 (office)
mjr@hussar.dco.dec.com (Marcus J. Ranum) (02/03/91)
mra@srchtec.uucp (Michael Almond) writes: >However, the 4.2BSD uucp is public domain. I got my copy from uu.psi.com >in the /src directory. I've install and am using it on a DECsystem 3100 >running Ultrix 4.1. I just took a look at a copy of that, and some of the comments are verbatim the same as the AT&T copyrighted version. I suspect that not only is that code not public domain (BSD code is not PD, though it is freely available) I suspect that code is AT&T proprietary and a trade secret, to boot. I don't believe the guys are Berkeley have re-written uucp, I do know they have extended and improved it - there's a difference. mjr. -- Lutraphiles unite!
rick@uunet.uu.net (Rick Adams) (02/06/91)
In article <1991Feb2.043622.8722@srchtec.uucp>, mra@srchtec.uucp (Michael Almond) writes: > > However, the 4.2BSD uucp is public domain. I got my copy from uu.psi.com > in the /src directory. I've install and am using it on a DECsystem 3100 > running Ultrix 4.1. The 4.2bsd uucp is based on ATT code from the 32V distribution. The copy on uu.psi.com is clearly a derivative of the licensed 4.3BSD distribution of modifications to 32V. Whether the code is NOW public domain is a matter for trade secret lawyers to hash out. People without large legal budgets should probably presume that the trade secret status of that code remains intact. --rick