Re: HELP needed with SHARD OF SPRING

[tshaynes@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca (Tim Haynes)]

In article <4utjst$q71@darla.visi.com>, Nathan Mates <nathan@visi.com> wrote:
>In article <4utfsc$iqc@magma.Mines.EDU>,
>Slartibartfast <agage@moran.Mines.EDU> wrote:
>>I have the docs...and if it weren't for the copyright in the front cover,
>>I'd post a copy here.  The copyright is ten years old tho --
>>when does it become eligible for PC-dom?
>
>   Same as all other copyrights covered under the 1988 Berne
>Convention.  Author's life + 50 years. At a minumum, that's in 2036,
>more if the authors didn't have a heart attack the minute they shipped
>it out the door.
>
>Nathan Mates

Hmmm.  Maybe they should measure the years in "computer years".
(Reference to the various quotations about "one computer year" equalling
seven actual years, when one observes the rate of change of computer
technology).  

Tim
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