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Subject: Re: uucp source copyright status - IMPORTANT
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>AT&T has told me that the trade secret was not simply the code, but the
>algorithms.  Bach has divulged the algorithms.

Hell, AT&T divulged some information about the internals of UNIX in
the first UNIX issue of the BSTJ.  I do not believe that their
lawyers are stupid; I presume they have at least some reason to hold
the legal opinion that they can still protect UNIX as a trade secret
given that.