Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!ucbvax!hplabs!hp-pcd!hplsla!jima
From: jima@hplsla.HP.COM (Jim Adcock)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Yes, but is it legal (Re: libg++ and copylefts)
Message-ID: <6590218@hplsla.HP.COM>
Date: 28 Jul 89 17:00:53 GMT
References: <JIM.89Jul26215018@kaos.Stanford.EDU>
Organization: HP Lake Stevens, WA
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>  Have these copyrights been registered with the copyright office?

Last I heard in the US one doesn't have to register a copyright for it to
be valid, until one needs to go to court to defend it.  Last thing the 
copyright office wants is for everyone to send them listings of their
software.

Just creating a substantially new work and putting a copyright notice on it
is enough to give you a valid copyright.

Disclaimer: not a lawyer, never will be.