[Info-vax] VLF: The 35th Anniversary Communique from the VMS Liberation Front

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <nospam-A66E9C.14591928102012 at news.chingola.ch>,
	Paul Sture <nospam at sture.ch> writes:
> In article <k6h0uv$mmt$1 at dont-email.me>,
>  glen herrmannsfeldt <gah at ugcs.caltech.edu> wrote:
> 
>> Richard B. Gilbert <rgilbert88 at comcast.net> wrote:
>> 
>> (snip)
>> > I don't think it's that simple or easy!  VMS makes use of intellectual 
>> > property (Patents and/or Copyrights) that is licensed by third parties
>> 
>> 
>> I would guess most of the patents have expired by now. 
>> 
>> Not the copyrights, though.
> 
> Copyrights can get murky too.  Back in 1995 I downloaded an intro to 
> TCP/IP from somewhere on the net, and the following year I found the 
> exact same article on DSNlink, but this one had a Digital copyright 
> notice.  I have no idea where this article originated, but it seemed to 
> be standard practice that anything published on DSNlink had the Digital 
> copyright notice.
 
One of the facets of the, now infamous, AT&T Unix lawsuit hinged on the
fact that after incorporating BSD Networking (and some other parts) into
SYSTEM V AT&T had removed all of the Berkeley Copyrights and inserted
AT&T Copyrights.  It seems that someone had been told AT&T distributed
code could have  nothing but AT&T Copyrights so an overzealous editor
went thru all the source making the appropriate changes.  :-)

bill

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