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From: gnu@l5.uucp (John Gilmore)
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: Re: non-published copyrighted software
Message-ID: <369@l5.uucp>
Date: Mon, 30-Dec-85 03:52:17 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec 30 03:52:17 1985
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In article <978@ecsvax.UUCP>, dgary@ecsvax.UUCP (D Gary Grady) writes:
> In article <1478@jhunix.UUCP> ins_aeas@jhunix.UUCP (Earle A .Sugar) writes:
> >    One final question: Ashton-Tate's license agreement states that the 
> >DBASE III package is a "non-published, copyrighted work"...how can something 
> >that has scores of thousands of (legal) copies in the field be considered 
> >"unpublished"?
> 
> ...I think the claim that dBASE is non-published is a ludicrous
> corruption of the meaning of the word, but you can't blame them for
> trying.

I believe AT&T claims that Unix source is a non-published trade secret.
So much for the law having any bearing on reality.