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What is the legal status of this?

• rvense 6y ago
  At a guess: somewhere in between "probably nobody cares" and "clone quickly if you're interested"...
  • diggan 6y ago
    The company also haven't been around since 1986, so unless there is some litigious people who used to work there/owned the company, it's hard to imagine someone will do something substantial about this repository.
    • rurban 6y ago
      Litigious people: check. Working with some strange partners, you don't want to mess with: check.
  • phoe-krk 6y ago
    The second repository of this user seems to have been hanging on GitHub for years (judging by commit history; could have been uploaded later). Still, it seems so far that no one cares about this repo.
• mepian 6y ago
  All of the assets of the last owner of this IP were seized by the Canadian government: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_Machines#GigaMos_Systems https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_Machines#GigaMos_Systems
  • rwmj 6y ago
    That's even more intriguing. I assume sadly that it would now be under "Crown Copyright", which is like normal copyright but in just about every respect worse - for one thing Crown Copyright has no time limit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_copyright https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_copyright
    • chungus_khan 6y ago
      I'm not sure it would, this IP wasn't "prepared or published by or under the direction or control of Her Majesty or any government department".