Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: is the shell copyrighted?
Message-ID: <1989Oct16.230237.26440@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <8910160448.AA06026@mordor.eng.umd.edu> <3725@ast.cs.vu.nl>
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 89 23:02:37 GMT

In article <3725@ast.cs.vu.nl> ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) writes:
>... England (unlike the U.S.) is a signatory to the Berne Convention,
>which means that the author of any work, including software, gets 
>automatic copyright to the work when it is created.  No notice is required.

The US *is* now a signatory to the Berne Convention, actually.
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