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From: allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery)
Newsgroups: alt.sources.d
Subject: Re: GPL and gettime. This is ridiculous.
Message-ID: <1989Nov29.234511.15953@NCoast.ORG>
Date: 29 Nov 89 23:45:11 GMT
References: <13283@s.ms.uky.edu> <1124@cirrusl.UUCP> <1989Nov28.061448.1314@eda.com>
Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery)
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As quoted from <1989Nov28.061448.1314@eda.com> by jim@eda.com (Jim Budler):
+---------------
| } There ought to be a clause in the Berne Convention that says that any
| } copyrighted work that is longer than its copyright statement
|                            ^^^^^^
| } automatically becomes public domain.
| 
| I think you meant shorter, above 8^)
+---------------

Pity it wouldn't apply to trade secret.  (Looked at /bin/true lately? ;-)

++Brandon
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