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From: chris@trantor.umd.edu (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: is there copyright on CURSES ?
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Date: 28 Feb 88 09:16:16 GMT
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Keywords: CURSES curses law legal copyright

>In article <452@sbsvax.UUCP> greim@sbsvax.UUCP (Michael Greim) writes:
>>The core of CURRY is CURSES all right, but I made changes in almost 
>>every routine. And I kept some stuff just to be a little bit compatible ...

In article <7369@brl-smoke.ARPA> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) writes:
>This is really a question of "trade secret", not of copyright.

Well now, that depends on with which curses library Michael started.
While I would advise him to check further first, I believe that the
one by Kenneth C. R. C. Arnold has been released into the public domain.
(Perhaps Ken will comment further.)  If, on the other hand, CURRY
is based on Mark Horton's curses, I would imagine Doug is right.
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