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From: tim@unc.UUCP (Tim Maroney)
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Subject: Re: Copyright Violations
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Date: Wed, 21-Mar-84 14:15:50 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar 21 14:15:50 1984
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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.