Xref: utzoo comp.sys.ibm.pc:19442 comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d:1055 Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!haven!ncifcrf!nlm-mcs!adm!smoke!w8sdz From: w8sdz@smoke.ARPA (Keith B. Petersen ) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: Official Statement of SEA Policy on ARC Summary: Read the fine print! Keywords: ARC, SEA Message-ID: <8550@smoke.ARPA> Date: 20 Sep 88 23:55:50 GMT References: <12188@steinmetz.ge.com> Reply-To: w8sdz@brl.arpa (Keith Petersen) Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD. Lines: 19 In Bill Davison's posting, SEA writes: "4) As the legal owner of the ARC trademark, we are bound by US trademark laws to protect and maintain the integrity of ARC in any program that uses the ARC trademark . To comply with this, we must ask for fully commented source code." -------------------------------------------- What author would be willing to give the competition fully commented source code and in addition feel comfortable in believing: "We will keep your source code completely confidential if you so desire, and we will not make use of any of your source code in any of our products." None that I know. -- Keith Petersen Arpa: W8SDZ@SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Uucp: {att,decwrl,harvard,lll-crg,ucbvax,uw-beaver}!simtel20.army.mil!w8sdz GEnie: W8SDZ