Subj : Re: 1:* BBS terminology
To   : all
From : MRO
Date : Wed Jul 08 2020 17:07:47

  Re: Re: 1:* BBS terminology
  By: MRO to Digital Man on Wed Jul 08 2020 03:59 pm

 > there's stuff all over the place, not sure if it's one location.
 > there are huge flamewars with people from sea and phil's supporters someplac


"Recently SEA filed contempt of court charges against Katz.  While
the company has kept details of their allegations under seal, they
appear to be alleging that any use of the word "arc" by Katz, 
even as a descriptive or generic term (for instance, to refer to the 
act of achiving a file--whether one is using SEA's ARC or ZOO or
any other archiving utility--as "arcing" it) is in violation of the 
settlement.  

SEA has lately been contacting other software developers whose
products make use of the ARC file format and threatening legal
action.  Gary Conway, author of NARC, an archive extraction
utility, was contacted by the company, which tried to pressure him
to license the ARC format and turn over the source code of NARC.
Don Kinzer of Polytron received a similar call from Thom
Henderson of SEA.  Henderson told Kinzer that if a software
product had the ability to read an ARC file--not create or
extract it, merely read it--SEA would require the vendor to
obtain a license from SEA
"

this is from the sea.txt.html

it also states that there wasnt an expert in court that examined the source.

oh here's a compilation of the stuff
http://www.bbsdocumentary.com/library/CONTROVERSY/LAWSUITS/SEA/
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