kempf@hplabsc.UUCP (Jim Kempf) (02/01/85)
Does anyone out there know what the copyright status of the dynamic loading
code is that was posted to net.sources last July? I am writing a book
on system programming techniques for numerical people and would like
to include it in an appendix as one way to make numerical code
independent of the problem model. I could not find an author name or
copyright notice in the code. Many thanks in advance!!!
jim kempf hplabs!kempfpadpowell@wateng.UUCP (PAD Powell) (02/02/85)
In article <2368@hplabsc.UUCP> kempf@hplabsc.UUCP (Jim Kempf) writes: >Does anyone out there know what the copyright status of the dynamic loading >code is that was posted to net.sources last July? I am writing a book >on system programming techniques for numerical people and would like >to include it in an appendix as one way to make numerical code >independent of the problem model. I could not find an author name or >copyright notice in the code. Many thanks in advance!!! > jim kempf hplabs!kempf As poster of this horrible thing, I make the following statements. 1. The code was developed after study of the Franz Lisp routines. These are marked "Copyright Regents ....Berkeley". 2. The code fragments were used as a guide, and generated from scratch.. uh,,, I mean keyboard. 3. As far as I am concerned, if anybody wants to claim this execrable hack as their own, far be it from me to stop them. Berkeley might object though. Patrick ("I wrote THAT garbage? I must have been drunk!!!") Powell
Ron Natalie <ron@BRL-TGR> (02/05/85)
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. Even IBM admits this in their licensed products literature. -Ron
dave@lsuc.UUCP (David Sherman) (02/13/85)
In article <8045@brl-tgr.ARPA> Ron Natalie <ron@BRL-TGR> 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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