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Subject: Re: Copyright
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Date: Wed, 23-Jul-86 11:38:24 EDT
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In article <3860@utah-cs.UUCP> coller@utah-cs.UUCP (Lee D. Coller) writes:
>Actually you can.  Under the 1978 US Copyright act the US Government
>cannot hold any copyrights.  Thus anything put out by them or their
>agents (text of laws, opinions, etc.) is in the public domain.

Hmmm.  BSD was written by Berkeley under a DARPA grant, wasn't it?  Does
that make them an agent of the US govt?
Dave Cohrs
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