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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Crypt algorithm status.. one more time
Keywords: crypt DES Unix
Message-ID: <8051@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 9 Jun 88 01:48:06 GMT
References: <302@eagle_snax.UUCP> <5776@megaron.arizona.edu>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <5776@megaron.arizona.edu> lm@megaron.arizona.edu (Larry McVoy) writes:
>you may reimplement the idea contained in the code and further more, you may
>do so by sitting down with the, say, unix code as your guide.  You could not
>copy the code but you could look at the code to see how they did it.

That might be true of copyright but it's definitely not true for UNIX
source, which is protected as a "trade secret".  Read your license.