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19997: Re: [MUD-Dev] Libs for 3D Client/Servers

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From: Caliban Tiresias Darklock <caliban@darklock.com>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 04:46:19 -0700
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Organization: Kanga.Nu
On Wed, 11 Jul 2001 01:07:24 -0400, "Jon Lambert"
<tychomud@ix.netcom.com> wrote:

> While the published work itself, the description of the protocol
> is copyrightable, it doesn't protect other expressions (aka
> software programs) of that algorithm or method.

Completely correct. A software patent would, in fact, be necessary.

> The only reference I can think of offhand is the GIF format (owned
> by Sperry?).

Unisys, last I heard.
 

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