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From: martyl@rocksvax.UUCP (Marty Leisner)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: COPYRIGHT NOTICES
Message-ID: <229@rocksvax.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 7-Aug-87 16:08:10 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug  7 16:08:10 1987
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Reply-To: martyl@rocksvax.UUCP (Marty Leisner)
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In article <6236@brl-smoke.ARPA> gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn ) writes:
>I've seen a lot of software posted to comp.sources.* recently
>that include (attempted) Copyright notices.  I don't know what
>the point of including such notices in broadcast code is, but
>I've just been tossing it since if the copyright is legal I
>cannot make a copy of it to compile, etc.  Please cut it out!

I don't think copyright notices inhibit copying.  I've come across a lot
of free software with copyright notices which state something to the 
effect

	"You can do anything you want with this software except sell
	it or take out this copyright notice".

This is as opposed to public domain, where there a no restraints.

The above is just an informal understanding.  

marty leisner
xerox corp.
leisner.henr@xerox.com
martyl@rocksvax.uucp