gnu@l5.uucp (John Gilmore) (12/30/85)
In article <978@ecsvax.UUCP>, dgary@ecsvax.UUCP (D Gary Grady) writes: > In article <1478@jhunix.UUCP> ins_aeas@jhunix.UUCP (Earle A .Sugar) writes: > > One final question: Ashton-Tate's license agreement states that the > >DBASE III package is a "non-published, copyrighted work"...how can something > >that has scores of thousands of (legal) copies in the field be considered > >"unpublished"? > > ...I think the claim that dBASE is non-published is a ludicrous > corruption of the meaning of the word, but you can't blame them for > trying. I believe AT&T claims that Unix source is a non-published trade secret. So much for the law having any bearing on reality.