Re: More questions [from herc/390]

"somitcw" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.emulators.hercules390.advocacy
Message-ID <[email protected]>
--- In [email protected], "Jeffrey R. Broido" 
<[email protected]> wrote:
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>As an example of this, I wrote a relatively minor piece
>of code in 1984, a TSO CP called MAPXA, and contributed
>it to the CBT tape.  It had an embedded copyright notice
>but I didn't bother to register the copyright and, in
>any case, in 1984 I'm not certain that my registration
>would have been accepted.  A few years later, I found 
>my code, most of it byte-for-byte identical, embedded
>in Boole & Babbage's product, RESOLVE, with my copyright
>notice replaced with theirs.
>I complained to them that among their staff was,
>apparently, at least one pirate and they had the gall
>to write me an official letter claiming to have written
>the code from scratch in-house.  As I hadn't registered
>the copyright, I had no legal leg to stand on.
>Bomber

    Proof that the code was on a 1984 CBT tape with a
 copyright should have been enough.  It would cost you
 plenty to hire a mouth-piece ( I'm not one ), but you
 might have forced them to change the code slightly.
 Perhaps, they could add a couple of NOPs.


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