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From: mohta@necom830.cc.titech.ac.jp (Masataka Ohta)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: AT&T vs. BSDI --> 4.3BSD-NET2 distribution requires AT&T license!!!
Message-ID: <1832@titccy.cc.titech.ac.jp>
Date: 6 Aug 92 04:52:11 GMT
References: <1992Jul30.173606.28357@kas.helios.mn.org> <1992Aug3.103210.4792@ohm.york.ac.uk> <BZS.92Aug3155429@ussr.std.com>
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In article <BZS.92Aug3155429@ussr.std.com>
	bzs@ussr.std.com (Barry Shein) writes:

>>Out of inteerst - hwt are the implications of this case for people outside the
>>US who have already got NET2 ? Can we quite happily hang on to it until At&T
>>start sueing in Europe, and if not then why not ?

>Being as there are copyright claims I would assume that AT&T will
>demand international protection under the Berne Convention (ca. 1978).

Wrong. Berne Convention allows each nation to have its own policy
(except for some general protection) on what is copyright infringement.

We have NET2 in Japan.

So, we can be quite happy until...

						Masataka Ohta

PS

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