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To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
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Subject: Re: Abuses of the BSD license?
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Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> writes:

> 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.

Trade secrets are proprietary by law.  Your example contradicts your
claim when you say "the exclusive rights are retained by the
proprieter".  How can you say that for an example of something that's
not proprietary?  Been reading at fsf.org too long? :-) Distribution is
irrelevant, like it is with copyright.  (You may distribute your copy of
a book to many people as long as you don't distribute it to the public.)

The funny thing that you observed is that not even trade secrets are
necessarily secret, in some sense.  (Of course, when they become
available to the general public (or become widely known?), they loose
their protected trade secret status, IIRC.)

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