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- From: jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala)
- Subject: NET2 no longer a trade secret, and no international copyright either?
- In-Reply-To: pcg@aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi)
- Message-ID: <1992Sep11.114218.13509@nntp.hut.fi>
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- Reply-To: jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala)
- Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
- References: <PCG.92Sep10175012@aberdb.aber.ac.uk>
- Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 11:42:18 GMT
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- >So, if USL are right, and NET2 caused the publication of Unix trade
- >secrets, they are no longer such, and NET2 is entirely in the public
- >domain. And if USL are wrong, and NET2 contained no trade secrets, then
- >there is no problem either.
- >
- >In either case distribution of NET2 cannot be restricted.
- >
- >On the other hand if NET2 were *copyrighted* by AT&T then AT&T has a
- >right to prevent distribution of unauthorized copies of NET2; but NET2
- >is covered by 32V, and 32V was not copyrighted, it was just protected by
- >trade secret.
-
- Ahh! Thanks for bringing into my mind: 32V predates U.S. signing the
- Berne convention, so if there indeed is no copyright claims in the
- code, your analysis is correct. _And_, no matter whether there are
- copyright calims or not in the code, 32V has no _international_
- copyright protection and thus can be freely copied _outside_ USA in
- any case (with regard to copyright), right?
-
- Also, U.S. law trade secret clauses hardly matter to for example
- Finnish persons putting the code out for ftp in any case, right?
-
- //Jyrki
-