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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Public domain software proclamation
Message-ID: <5757@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: Tue, 14-Apr-87 03:15:45 EST
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Posted: Tue Apr 14 03:15:45 1987
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References: <197@twg-ap.UUCP> <5513@shemp.UCLA.EDU>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
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Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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Keywords: PD software

In article <5513@shemp.UCLA.EDU> dgreen@CS.UCLA.EDU (Dan R. Greening) writes:
>1. I never sign those stupid agreements without crossing out all the stuff
>   that says my employer owns work done on my time.

Hear, hear!
I too have done this.  A company owns the amount of my time they pay for;
the rest belongs to me.  A more appropriate restriction would be that any
development clearly arising from company resources belongs to the company.

By the way, I notice several people including the entire contents of
/bin/true except for the copyright notice...