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- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Path: sparky!uunet!kithrup!sef
- From: sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan)
- Subject: Re: AT&T sues BSDI
- Organization: Kithrup Enterprises, Ltd.
- Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 21:12:16 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Jul25.211216.2615@kithrup.COM>
- References: <1992Jul22.221515.23550@tfs.com> <1992Jul25.061414.3401@spcvxb.spc.edu> <102@ampr.ab.ca>
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- In article <102@ampr.ab.ca> lyndon@ampr.ab.ca (Lyndon Nerenberg) writes:
- >If their assertion is
- >that BSD/386 is a derivative work based on System V, why are they not
- >challenging this as a copyright violation?
-
- Copyright, trade secret, and patents. They just don't specify which one,
- nor do they specify *what* has been used without license.
-
- >As for the C vs. gcc argument, the feeling is that you cannot protect
- >a programming language per se, although you can prevent someone from
- >calling it 'C' if you properly protect the name 'C' as used in conjunction
- >with that programming language.
-
- There are movements, both here (US) and abroad, to allow the patenting or
- copyrighting of *languages*. Ashton-Tate would have dearly loved that
- ability. Go ask in gnu.misc.discuss for more details.
-
- >Witness what DOD has done to protect
- >the name Ada.
-
- The DOD has dropped the trademark status of Ada. Anyone can call anything
- 'Ada' now, I believe.
-
- --
- Sean Eric Fagan | "My psychiatrist says I have a messiah
- sef@kithrup.COM | complex. But I forgive him."
- -----------------+ -- Jim Carrey
- Any opinions expressed are my own, and generally unpopular with others.
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