chris@mimsy.UUCP (03/21/87)
In article <17953@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> schoet@ernie.Berkeley.EDU (Steve Schoettler) writes: >There's a method of "copying" another program that seems to have held >in court in the past: Someone with access to the source ... studies it >carefully and then writes up a description .... This is then handed to >a programmer who does not have access to any of the source and "blindly" >produces a program that does the same thing. I imagine this can work for programs that are simply copyrighted. UUCP, however, is protected by trade secret, which is considerably stricter. Fortunately, as John Gilmore has pointed out, there is already a published protocol description for UUCP, one that was made legally and can be used by anyone. -- In-Real-Life: Chris Torek, Univ of MD Comp Sci Dept (+1 301 454 7690) UUCP: seismo!mimsy!chris ARPA/CSNet: chris@mimsy.umd.edu