Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!linac!uwm.edu!rpi!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!agate!ucbvax!wubios.wustl.edu!david From: david@wubios.wustl.edu ("David J. Camp") Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc Subject: ka9q and copyright law (fwd) Message-ID: <9012082050.AA12888@wubios.wustl.edu> Date: 8 Dec 90 20:50:09 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 30 In Reply to this Note From: >There are many files in the ka9q which don't have a copyright notice. >May I assume that the only reason ka9q is not PD is that a few of the >files have a copyright license. I have contacted Phil Karn who said >I could send him a check for $10,000 for a site licence but we're >intested in creating a product to ship to customers. If we rewrite the >copyright files could we then (for the first time) have a PD tcp/ip >kernel with a bsd socket interface? Absolutely not. The old copyright law may have allowed you to do this, but according to the Berne Convention, it is no longer necessary for an author to apply a copyright notice to a work to enforce his copyright. The files without copyright notices are under the full protection of the U.S. copyright law. I have heard that there may be some way to bypass the law by exporting and reimporting the product, but I know little about this. -David- > > >-- >todd (booth) > >todd@quotron.com 213 302-4368 >..!uunet!quotron.com!todd > david@wubios.wustl.edu ^ Mr. David J. Camp david%wubios@wugate.wustl.edu < * > +1 314 382 0584 ...!uunet!wugate!wubios!david v "God loves material things."