authorplaceholder@gorgo.UUCP.UUCP (02/17/87)
In-Reply-To: gnu@hoptoad.UUCP in comp.mail.uucp >I'm not going to stop working with the code based on rumors and scare >tactics. I just wanna get the facts, ma'an. Ok here are some facts: >I hereby call upon AT&T, the company and its employees, to come out and >state whether public use of uuslave.c is believed to violate any of >AT&T's rights (eg copyrights, trade secrets) or licenses (eg Unix >source licenses). I must agree that it is apparent that the uuslave.c code is not directly derived from any version of uucp that I have seen. As for licenses and trade secrets.... I can't comment on that. It is an issue for attorneys. > In the absence of such a claim by AT&T, I will >continue to assume that the code is public domain, and that even in the >unlikely event that there is some AT&T involvement in uuslave, the >company has decided to abandon any claim it has in the program. This might be unwise as it does not constitute a legal notification unless it is served by mail to a member of the corportation with power of attorney. (I'm not being a crumb, its just federal law.) >AT&T employees, please forward this to the licensing department or whoever >handles these kind of questions. I suggest that you contact the corporate administration for UNIX System licensing at AT&T, Greensboro, NC. (They are in the phone book :-) about the issue of licensing. I'm sure that they will try to be helpful, they're very nice folks. (The following is a personal statement and does not represent an opinion of AT&T - My Employer) Personally, I see no problem with what you have done and continue to do... Then again, I am not a lawyer... just a hacker that works for a real big company. Fortunately for us all, most of the other folks working there are also pretty reasonable people. Very best wishes, Steve Blasingame (AT&T Oklahoma City) ihnp4!occrsh!gorgo!bsteve Please point all flames on this issue to /dev/null or they will bounce back.