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In article <1992Aug3.210434.7540@colorado.edu> bernstei@hazelrah.cs.colorado.edu (Michael Bernstein) writes:
>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.
[...]
>The fellow at the next desk says that sounds "bogus."  I think it
>completely pernicious.  Does that mean (taking it to logical
>extension) that for every OS (or whatever) with whose internals
>you've gotten chummy, you have to include such disclaimer with your
>code to the effect that "This code contains no intellectual property
[...]
I did not write, that this was a requirement.  From what I remember,
and the impression I got, this was offered as a free service by
AT&T to anyone who wished to be absolutely sure that he would not
have any legal problems with distributing his code.

Diomidis
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