Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!motcid!mellman
From: mellman@motcid.UUCP (Tom Mellman)
Newsgroups: comp.os.mach
Subject: Re: DOC export licenses
Message-ID: <4195@graphite18.UUCP>
Date: 18 Jul 90 18:23:24 GMT
References: <43447@cornell.UUCP>
Reply-To: motcid!mellman@uunet.uu.net
Distribution: comp
Organization: Motorola Inc. - Cellular Infrastructure Div., Arlington Heights, IL 60004
Lines: 13

In article <43447@cornell.UUCP> ken@cs.cornell.edu (Ken Birman) writes:
>Note that these days, DARPA doesn't even hold copyright on software
>like Mach or ISIS, or insist that the systems be public domain.
>-- Ken Birman

Do I understand that correctly?  Are you saying that projects that the
public pays for can be copyrighted by private individuals for profit?
Sounds like Reagan-era shanangans to me.  That would call for a letter
to my representative (for whatever that's worth).

Thomas Mellman
-- 
Reply-to: motcid!mellman@uunet.uu.net