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From: mjranum@osiris.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp,comp.sources.d
Subject: boy am I getting flamed...
Message-ID: <1019@osiris.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 21-Mar-87 09:56:20 EST
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Posted: Sat Mar 21 09:56:20 1987
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Keywords: re my previous posting about uucp copyright status
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	Understandably I am getting flamed to bits over my earlier posting.
(to some of you out there, please at least TRY to be polite!)  I obviously
was not clear enough. I was not saying that uucp should be public-domain,
or posted to the net. I was just surprised that everything in 99% of the
source I've ever seen often has more copyright lines than actual code, and
here uucp has none. There has been a *lot* of discussion of copyrights on
the net, and I was hoping that someone more knowledgeable than myself might
be able to (showing kindness to my stupidity) shed some light on copyright law.
	It was pointed out to me that the licensing agreement covers the
entire distribution as trade secrets, but I don't see how that works when
public domain source is included with proprietary source (for example Mike
Muus' "ping" program). 
	Considering the amazingly touchy attitude lots of people on the net
have shown towards having carefully worded copyright notices in EVERYTHING,
I was (and still am) suprised there is nothing in uucp.

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