Subject: Re: why we aren't using lisp (was New to Lisp) From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.no> Date: 1999/06/22 Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Message-ID: <3139035688203899@naggum.no> * Kent M Pitman <pitman@world.std.com> | I don't agree. A right exists whether it is invoked. what can I say? my sources are a top-notch businessman, it was confirmed by an intellectual property lawyer I have known for many years, and even reconfirmed by the lawyer who drafted my contracts with the sponsoring Taiwanese University and IBM for my work both here and in the U.S.: the text of agreements is not copyrighted, and lawyers _want_ to be able to use the text of other lawyers' contracts without listing a whole bunch of sources or paying fees for the wording. (sold to the general public, other interests in the text come into consideration, of course.) I'm sorry I cannot do anything but appeal to "lower authorities", not actually having any interest in paying for a lawyer to dig up actual references, but in this case, I think you're overreacting. please ask some intellectual property lawyers whether they protect the wording of their agreements, and whether there is a customary, if not legal, understanding that agreements are supposed to be part of the legal framework. I may have to remind you that the text of laws, etc, isn't copyrighted, either, and in this case, there's a law that says it in most countries. the Berne convention does not apply to government property in the first place. #:Erik -- @1999-07-22T00:37:33Z -- pi billion seconds since the turn of the century