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Subject: Microsoft copyright notice (was: uuslave.c public domain, blah**3)
Message-ID: <425@omepd>
Date: Thu, 19-Feb-87 02:37:37 EST
Article-I.D.: omepd.425
Posted: Thu Feb 19 02:37:37 1987
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Reply-To: perry@inteloa.intel.com (Perry The Cynic)
Organization: Intel Corp., Hillsboro
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Keywords: copyright, Microsoft, C
Summary: Microsoft C produces copyright notice in library, not in binaries.
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In article <471@gouldsd.UUCP> mjranum@gouldsd.UUCP (Marcus J Ranum) writes:
>
>2) recently I have read unpleasant rumors of Microsoft C producing 
>'Copyright Microsoft' headers in executables. ...

Oops! Don't frighten me like that!
I've checked my binaries. Microsoft C does not put any copyright notice into
the binaries (.OBJ files) it generates. The C runtime library does contain
a notice that reads
	C library - (C)Copyright Microsoft Corp. 1986
and appears magically in all executable programs that use Microsoft's C
library. This means (I think) that the C *library* is copyrighted. (Surprise!)

Question now (and that's what Marcus was really talking about): if I write
a program with MS C, using (by practical necessity) the C library, and sell
this program, what is the legal situation? Do I infringe Microsoft's copyright?
I am pretty sure that nowhere in the documentation there is any explicit notice
(such as MS reserves the right... etc.). On the other hand, I don't think they
explicitly allow selling such programs either. Could someone knowledgeable
please explain the legalese?

I'm [almost] sure that similar questions have been asked on the net before,
so I might as well apologize right now. But I'd still like to know the
answers...
Thank you.
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