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From: ekb@ho7cad.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: Surreptitious copyrighting, was Public Domain Yacc
Message-ID: <138@ho7cad.ATT.COM>
Date: Tue, 17-Feb-87 12:47:22 EST
Article-I.D.: ho7cad.138
Posted: Tue Feb 17 12:47:22 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 18-Feb-87 22:16:15 EST
References: <210@bacchus.MIT.EDU> <280@slovax.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, NJ
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Summary: rights to library routines

In article <280@slovax.UUCP>, harryb@slovax.UUCP (Harry E. Barnett) writes:
> [Stuff on how use of Microsoft's C subroutine library results in   ]
> ["Copyright by Microsoft Corp." strings included in your binary.   ]
> [Also thoughts on whether this gives Microsoft rights to your code.]

I seems to me that Microsoft does have some right to control the distribution
of binaries which include object modules from their subroutine library.  They
do have the copyright on those modules, after all.

They may have waived those rights in the license you got with the library.
I'd check it if I were you.

I wouldn't worry too much about a non-technical judge or jury interpreting
the notice as applying to the entire binary.  Explaining this is much
easier that a lot of other technical subjects that must be explained to
juries every day.

= Eric Bustad
  +1-201-949-6257 (Give me a call sometime!)