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- From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
- Subject: Re: A Telebit FAX upgrade FLAME (Was: "Re: WB Fax Upgrade")
- Message-ID: <C0Iw7C.6Ew@zoo.toronto.edu>
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 06:47:35 GMT
- References: <1993Jan6.052942.582@smoke.marlboro.vt.us> <1993Jan6.100623.15326@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov> <1993Jan6.182313.22435@news2.cis.umn.edu> <1993Jan7.231020.10297@netcom.com>
- Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
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- In article <1993Jan7.231020.10297@netcom.com> mingso@netcom.com (Ming Yau So) writes:
- >[Supra] says that the documentations for Class 1 & 2 fax
- >protocols (V.17 & V.29 ??) are copyrighted by CCCIT, and it's CCCIT desired
- >to not have these docs distributed freelyfrom the modem manufacturer, because
- >CCCIT are selling these docs...
-
- Oh come now. Copyright protects the *wording* of the docs, not their
- *content*. The Hayes manuals that described the original AT... command
- set were copyrighted too. Same situation: all Telebit has to do is
- have someone rewrite the description in his own words. (Long odds he
- can make it more comprehensible than CCITT's version, too.)
- --
- "God willing... we shall return." | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
- -Gene Cernan, the Moon, Dec 1972 | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry
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