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From: drears@ardec.arpa (Dennis G. Rears (FSAC))
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re:  is there copyright on CURSES ?
Message-ID: <12014@brl-adm.ARPA>
Date: 27 Feb 88 18:35:27 GMT
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Mike:

   No you can't copyright it.  What CURRY is a derivative work of
Curses.  Since it is not only based on Curses but uses some of the
same code it is not copyrightable.  If curses was public domain you
could copyright the changes to Curses.  You could always buy a license
from AT&T to sell sell your enhanced version. If you would have taken
the idea of curses and wrote everything from scratch then you could
copyright it.  Either way if money is involved see a lawyer before any
final decisions are made.

Dennis