NET2 no longer a trade secret, and no international copyright either?

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From: Jyrki Kuoppala
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 11:42

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>So, if USL are right, and NET2 caused the publication of Unix trade
>secrets, they are no longer such, and NET2 is entirely in the public
>domain. And if USL are wrong, and NET2 contained no trade secrets, then
>there is no problem either.
>
>In either case distribution of NET2 cannot be restricted.
>
>On the other hand if NET2 were *copyrighted* by AT&T then AT&T has a
>right to prevent distribution of unauthorized copies of NET2; but NET2
>is covered by 32V, and 32V was not copyrighted, it was just protected by
>trade secret.

Ahh!  Thanks for bringing into my mind: 32V predates U.S. signing the
Berne convention, so if there indeed is no copyright claims in the
code, your analysis is correct.  _And_, no matter whether there are
copyright calims or not in the code, 32V has no _international_
copyright protection and thus can be freely copied _outside_ USA in
any case (with regard to copyright), right?

Also, U.S. law trade secret clauses hardly matter to for example
Finnish persons putting the code out for ftp in any case, right?

//Jyrki

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