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From: theo.bbs@shark.cs.fau.edu (Theo Heavey)
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Subject: Re: Software Copyright
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Date: 17 May 91 17:19:16 GMT
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kaz@ast.COM (Richard Kaczmarek) writes:

> Okay, here goes nothing.  I've been reading a quite a few articles (and
> some law books, since I got interested) about software copyright.  The
> good I've heard is that it protects intellectual property from theft.
> The bad is that it inhibits the advancement of software engineering in
> some form or another.  What are your thoughts?
> 


I think that Intellectual Prop and Copyright are not always the same.

I am NOT a legal eagle so I may be wrong about that .

Both impinge upon the reusability issue (that is the SWEng concern)