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Article #16Re: [comp.unix.bsd] Re: AT&T vs. BSDI --> 4.3BSD-NET2 distribution requires AT&T license!!!
From: James Davies
Date: Fri, 07 Aug 1992 15:25
Date: Fri, 07 Aug 1992 15:25
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bzs@ussr.std.com (Barry Shein) wrote in comp.unix.bsd: > >From: pete@ohm.york.ac.uk (-Pete French.) >>Out of inteerst - hwt are the implications of this case for people outside the >>US who have already got NET2 ? Can we quite happily hang on to it until At&T >>start sueing in Europe, and if not then why not ? > >Being as there are copyright claims I would assume that AT&T will >demand international protection under the Berne Convention (ca. 1978). >Since the AT&T copyright came later on (after 1980), I would imagine >it all falls under this pact. The US didn't join the Berne Convention until 1989. However, it should still be covered by one of the others (I believe the Universal Copyright Convention is, well, almost universal :-).
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!copper!aspen.craycos.com!jrbd From: jrbd@craycos.com (James Davies) Newsgroups: misc.int-property,misc.legal.computing Subject: Re: [comp.unix.bsd] Re: AT&T vs. BSDI --> 4.3BSD-NET2 distribution requires AT&T license!!! Message-ID: <1992Aug7.152506.14314@craycos.com> Date: 7 Aug 92 15:25:06 GMT References: <1992Aug3.103210.4792@ohm.york.ac.uk> <BZS.92Aug3155429@ussr.std.com> <1992Aug6.004453.18773@nntp.hut.fi> Organization: Cray Computer Corporation Lines: 15