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From: ron@brl-sem.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix,comp.mail.uucp,comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: uucp source copyright status - IMPORTANT
Message-ID: <694@brl-sem.ARPA>
Date: Fri, 20-Mar-87 23:41:09 EST
Article-I.D.: brl-sem.694
Posted: Fri Mar 20 23:41:09 1987
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References: <480@gouldsd.UUCP>
Organization: Electronic Brain Research Lab
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Keywords: no copyright notices in all the uucp source I've ever seen.
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In article <480@gouldsd.UUCP>, mjranum@gouldsd.UUCP (Marcus J Ranum) writes:
> 
> 	The other day I happened upon something QUITE interesting that I
> think might spark some discussion. (We have a source license here for Sun
> UNIX, so don't bother having your lawyers call me). Anyhow, I noticed that
> THE SOURCE FOR UUCP HAS NO COPYRIGHT NOTICES IN IT except for in some of
> the more recent utilities such as uuencode and uudecode. 

Up until very recently you never found a copyright notice in UNIX software.
UNIX is not protected by copyright, but rather by trade secret.  In your
agreement with AT&T (or Western in the old days), you agreed not to
divulge the UNIX source code nor information on how it operates.  Despite
the lack of copyright notices in UUCP, it is still AT&T proprietary.

-Ron