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From: blarson@skat.usc.edu (Bob Larson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.sys.ibm.pc,misc.legal
Subject: Re: Library-source for Turbo-C
Keywords: Copyright
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Date: 20 Apr 89 09:41:20 GMT
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In article <2803@pegasus.ATT.COM> psrc@pegasus.ATT.COM (Paul S. R. Chisholm) writes:
>Neither TC nor the TC library source code is or ever will be in the
>public domain.

If it is protected by U.S. copyright law, the above statement is
incorrect.  50 years after the death of the author, it WILL be public
domain.  (The period used to be shorter.)  I'm not sure exactly how
this applies to multi-author copyrights held by corperations.

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