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Subject: Re: uucp source copyright status - IMPORTANT
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Date: Mon, 23-Mar-87 18:39:53 EST
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In article <15443@sun.uucp>, guy%gorodish@Sun.COM (Guy Harris) writes:
> 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.

If you think you can reproduce UNIX given the published manuals, books,
and journal articles, go to it.  It's been done before, and if you want
to give it away, I'm sure Stallman would like to hear from you.

-ROn