[TUHS] Demise of TeX and groff (was: roff(7))

Warner Losh imp at bsdimp.com
Wed Jan 12 09:57:32 AEST 2022


On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 1:08 PM Clem Cole <clemc at ccc.com> wrote:

> The AT&T case basically said that once the implementations was released,
> AT&T could no longer call anything a trade secret, although they *do the
> own the IP and copyright*
>

Not entirely true. There was a preliminary ruling that said that 32V might
have lost its copyright protections because it was distributed outside of
AT&T without proper copyright notices, as required by the pre-1980
copyright law. This detail was what caused AT&T to settle before it could
become finalized (the preliminary ruling said there was a substantial
likelihood that this would be the outcome, to be pedantic). To the extent
that AT&T had complied with copyright laws requirements, they would retain
their copyrights though.

Warner
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