Richard Stallman resigns from the FSF

Posted Sep 20, 2019 16:25 UTC (Fri) by Wol (subscriber, #4433)
In reply to: Richard Stallman resigns from the FSF by NYKevin
Parent article: Richard Stallman resigns from the FSF

> It is correctly noting that , before 1983, no software was covered by copyright.

No software IN AMERICA! It was always covered by Berne, right from the start.

Which was part of the problem with Unix in that AT&T famously removed copyright messages, including a lot from two Universities - University College London, and one in Australia who's name escapes me. Trying to sell Unix in the "Rest Of the World" when it contained a load of code with illegally removed copyright notices could have been, well, awkward to say the least ...

Cheers,
Wol