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From: dave@lsuc.UUCP (David Sherman)
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Re:  copyright status of dynamic loading code
Message-ID: <398@lsuc.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 13-Feb-85 13:40:48 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb 13 13:40:48 1985
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References: <8045@brl-tgr.ARPA>
Reply-To: dave@lsuc.UUCP (David Sherman)
Organization: Law Society of Upper Canada, Toronto
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In article <8045@brl-tgr.ARPA> Ron Natalie   writes:
+ Berkeley may object, but not legally.  There is nothing that prohibits
+ you from using algorithms from copyright code in other projects without
+ regard to the copyright...

Don't be so sure. AT&T UNIX sources are protected by trade-secret
rather than copyright. Trade secret protection will apply
to algorithms where copyright will only apply to the expression
of the algorithm in the code.

Dave Sherman  (yep, I'm a lawyer, even if my specialty is tax...)
The Law Society of Upper Canada
Toronto
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