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On 3/27/24 13:40, Dave Wade wrote:
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John,
There
appears to be some debate, in that explicit regulations for
software copyright appeared in 1980, but some lawyers say
1976 is the relevant date.
Dave
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Hmm, that means that perhaps *ASMH is
free and clear, since I think the IBM product from which it
was created predates 1980.?
As for things like Pascal (*PASCALVS) and Fortran 77
(*FTNVS), these may have been created after 1980.
I'm trying to find the reference that I mentioned in my
original post, but haven't been able to find it. It
mentioned that IBM let copyright expire on a "slew of old
mainframe software products". This was about 4 months ago. I
cannot find it anymore but will keep looking.
