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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: COPYRIGHT NOTICES
Message-ID: <6267@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: Sun, 9-Aug-87 19:23:58 EDT
Article-I.D.: brl-smok.6267
Posted: Sun Aug  9 19:23:58 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 13-Aug-87 01:32:10 EDT
References: <6236@brl-smoke.ARPA> <13819@topaz.rutgers.edu>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <13819@topaz.rutgers.edu> ron@topaz.rutgers.edu (Ron Natalie) writes:
-Then I suggest that you look towards your own organization.  The
-software that BRL distributes has an erroneous COPYRIGHT notice
-and smoke screen on it.  The U.S. Government can not hold a copyright
-on anything.  Moreover, trying to maintain a proprietary to BRL status
-on this published code is probably not enforceable provided that the
-code is not of a defense sensitive nature that should have precluded
-any distribution to begin with.

That's all probably true.  I don't put any copyright notices on
anything I send out.  I'm not responsible for what others here
may do, but I'll forward the information to them.  Thanks.