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From: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Copyrighting programs based on PD may be ruled invalid
Message-ID: <4205@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Date: 5 Oct 88 16:09:22 GMT
References: <KPETERSEN.12435888308.BABYL@SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL>
Reply-To: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana
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In article <KPETERSEN.12435888308.BABYL@SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL>
W8SDZ@SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL (Keith Petersen) writes:
>> "Prior art, whether protected or in
>> the public domain, can make your patent or copyright invalid."
...
>Would it make ZOO's copyright invalid?

All the compression/decompression code in zoo is in separate files and
already explicitly released to the public domain.
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Rahul Dhesi         UUCP:  <backbones>!{iuvax,pur-ee}!bsu-cs!dhesi