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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!mips!mips!sdd.hp.com!usc!wupost!uunet!mcsun!uknet!edcastle!hwcs!shakti!rick From: rick@hci.hw.ac.uk (Rick Innis) Newsgroups: alt.suit.att-bsdi,comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: 'Busted Trade Secrets' vs. Copyright on Unpublished Works Message-ID: <RICK.92Aug13131831@millburn.hci.hw.ac.uk> Date: 13 Aug 92 13:18:31 GMT References: <l8768cINN3cj@neuro.usc.edu> <1863@titccy.cc.titech.ac.jp> Sender: news@cs.hw.ac.uk (News Administrator) Followup-To: alt.suit.att-bsdi Organization: Computer Science, Heriot-Watt University Lines: 19 In-Reply-To: mohta@necom830.cc.titech.ac.jp's message of 11 Aug 92 13:17:54 GMT In article <1863@titccy.cc.titech.ac.jp> mohta@necom830.cc.titech.ac.jp (Masataka Ohta) writes: My memory is faint, but, isn't there a book containing all source code of V6 kernel published in public by accident in Australia in 1970s? Not by accident -- it was allowed to be published as part of an operating systems course, along with a companion volume giving a comprehesive commentary on the code. I can't remember the exact details of the copyright and restriction notice on it -- I'll check that photocopy of it I don't have on my shelves at home. --Rick. -- Rick Innis, Computer Science, | "Has anyone seen the secret of the universe?" Heriot-Watt University, | said Zebedee, arriving. "I know I left it Edinburgh, Scotland. | around here somewhere." rick@cs.hw.ac.uk | -> My opinions, not the University's. <-