Newsgroup: alt.suit.att-bsdi

In article <1992Aug3.163104.8738@doc.ic.ac.uk> dds@doc.ic.ac.uk (Diomidis Spinellis) writes:
>I seem to remember, that some public domain source code that making the
>rounds of the net a number of years ago (five?) had a statement from an
>AT&T person attached, stating that the code did not contain and was not
>based on any AT&T intelectual property.  It also gave a contact for
>further enquires.  The idea I got was, that if you had some code that
>could have been AT&T's intellectual property you mailed it to someone
>at AT&T who told you whether it was or not.  Does anyone know whether
>that procedure still exists, and if yes, why BSDI did not use it, if no
>why it was dropped by AT&T?

Thanks to Alan Cox's memory, I managed to locate the file I was talking
about.  It is part of the uuslave distribution (an early UUCP clone)
written by John Gilmore.  The file s named CERTIFIC.ATT and is dated
Jun  8  1987; I enclose a copy at the end of this message.  An interesting
point is, that John Gilmore had almost definitely been exposed to Unix
source code at that time.

Diomidis
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John Gilmore,

Listed below is the source code for uuslave that you electronically
mailed to me on February 20, 1987. Our product management personnel
have reviewed this code and have determined that it was not derived
from source code from versions of our UNIX(r) operating system. If
you have any further questions, please feel free to call me at
1-800-828-UNIX.


David W. Frasure
AT&T UNIX Software Licensing
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