Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site unc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!decvax!mcnc!unc!tim From: tim@unc.UUCP (Tim Maroney) Newsgroups: net.followup,net.news,net.legal Subject: Re: Copyright Violations Message-ID: <6946@unc.UUCP> Date: Wed, 21-Mar-84 14:15:50 EST Article-I.D.: unc.6946 Posted: Wed Mar 21 14:15:50 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 23-Mar-84 07:12:17 EST References: <778@nsc.UUCP> Organization: CS Dept., U. of N. Carolina at Chapel Hill Lines: 18 A very good article from Chuck Von Rospach. One point remains to be made on publication of proprietary source code: The copyright law includes in its "fair use" provisions an allowance for publication of short extracts from copyrighted works for critical purposes. Given this, while it would still be illeagl to publish, say, the complete source of awk(1), you would not be violating the law to publish, say, twenty lines of code for the purpose of commenting on the quality of the code, or in an article on programming styles, etc. Does anyone know if there are additional restrictions on software that would forbid this? -- Tim Maroney, The Censored Hacker mcnc!unc!tim (USENET), tim.unc@csnet-relay (ARPA) All opinions expressed herein are completely my own, so don't go assuming that anyone else at UNC feels the same way.