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From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
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Subject: Re: Abuses of the BSD license?
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"Gary W. Swearingen" wrote:
> Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> writes:
> > What people are normally protecting by not leaving papers
> > at McDonalds are trade secrets and proprietary business
> > information (product direction, etc.).
> 
> I hope you won't mind my pointing out a redundancy there that strokes a
> pet peeve of mine the wrong way. :) Such business information is just a
> type of trade secrets -- business (trade) secrets.  Trade secrets,
> patented ideas, service and trademarks, and copyrighted works are all
> forms of proprietary information (which has only recently also been
> referred to as intellectual property, BTW).  Secrets are often
> proprietary information, but proprietary information is often not
> secret.

And trade secrets are not necessarily proprietary; they can
be distributed to a select group.  The exclusive rights are
retained by the proprieter, but the secrets themselves are
distributed.

This is the importance in the header file license in the USL
header files being labelled as "unpublished".

So it's not redundant to refer to both terms.  8-).

-- Terry

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