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From: roque@master.di.fc.ul.pt (Pedro Roque Marques)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Historic Opportunity facing Free Unix (was Re: The Lai/Baker paper, benchmarks, and the world of free UNIX)
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Date: 1 May 1996 22:15:21 +0100
Organization: Faculdade de Ciencias da Universidade de Lisboa
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Terry Lambert (terry@lambert.org) wrote:

: Their Lesstif clone worries me, mostly because of potential
: legal problems caused by the way it was developed.  They are
: implementing interfaces which aren't publically documented
: anywhere (programming books, OSF books, etc.) except in OSF
: header files and the namelist of OSF libXm.a.

Hi Terry,

Is this really problematic in terms of US law ?
In Europe we are allowed to do that... 
If any european makes a document availiable with that info, by means legal in
it's country, aren't Us citizens allowed to use it in developement of software?

: Their word processor will, hoepefully, compile with standard
: Motif (or a less promiscuous clone).

:                                         Terry Lambert
:                                         terry@lambert.org
: ---
: Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
: or previous employers.
-- 
	Pedro Roque ( roque@di.fc.ul.pt )				      
									      
	Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa		      
	Departamento de Informática