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From: wrf@ernie.BERKELEY.EDU (W. Randolph Franklin)
Newsgroups: net.legal
Subject: patents, copyrights, licenses
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Date: Wed, 22-Jan-86 09:57:20 EST
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1. There is hope that the restrictive licenses on SW might be
liberalized since some such attempted restrictions in the past have
died.  e.g. I have a GE car battery charger from about the 20s that
contains a vacuum tube rectifier.  The charger's nameplate says that
this tube is being sold to be used in this device, and that it is not
licensed to be used in a radio transmitter.  (Maybe ham operators would
rebuild chargers into radios and GE didn't like it ???) I haven't heard
of people lately being busted for recycling something's components.

2. On the other hand, a textbook publisher's rep I met was complaining
about the unfairness (to the author) of students being able to sell
their books to someone else to reuse the next year.  Can you see SW
style licenses on books next?


Wm. Randolph Franklin, UC Berkeley,  
Arpanet: wrf@ernie.Berkeley.EDU
USPS: Computer Science Div., 543 Evans, University of California,
	  Berkeley CA, 94720, USA
415-642-9955
Wm. Randolph Franklin, UC Berkeley,  
Arpanet: wrf@ernie.Berkeley.EDU
USPS: Computer Science Div., 543 Evans, University of California,
	  Berkeley CA, 94720, USA
415-642-9955