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From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: While we're flaming about copyrights...
Message-ID: <=X833-ggpc2@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 5 May 90 20:55:57 GMT
Reply-To: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
Lines: 61

... anyone care to make suggestions for improvements to, or point out problems
in, the following?

/*
 * Copyright <year> <your organization>
 *
 * Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its
 * documentation for any purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided
 * that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that both that
 * copyright notice and this permission notice appear in supporting
 * documentation.
 *
 * This program is publicly available, but is NOT in the public domain.  The 
 * difference is that copyrights granting rights for unrestricted use and 
 * redistribution have been placed on the software to identify its 
 * authors, and to encourage redistribution of this code.  You are allowed
 * and encouraged to take this software and build commercial products,
 * freeware products, shareware products, and any other kind of product you
 * can think up, with the following restriction:
 *
 * If you redistribute the source to this program, or a derivitive of that
 * source, you must include this copyright notice intact. If the system
 * this source is distributed with is under a stricter license (such as
 * a commercial license, the typical freeware "no commercial use" license,
 * or the FSF copyleft) then you must provide the original source under the
 * original terms.
 *
 * <your organization> makes no representations about the suitability of this
 * software for any purpose.  It is provided "as is" without express or
 * implied warranty.
 *
 * <your name> DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE, INCLUDING
 * ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS, IN NO EVENT SHALL
 * <your name> BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, INDIRECT OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR
 * ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER
 * IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT
 * OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
 *
 * Author:  <your name>, <your organization>
 *          <your address>
 */


Notes:

     o  Do not include the words "All rights reserved" unless you have had a 
	lawyer verify that you have also explicitly given away all of the 
	necessary rights shown in the samples.
 
     o  Spell out the word "Copyright"; the phrase "(c)" is NOT a legal
	alternative to the c-in-circle symbol.
 
     o  Put at least a one-line copyright at the top of EVERY source file, if
	not the full copyright.  Also, the copyright line or full notice MUST
	physically appear in each file.  Using the preprocessor to #include the
	copyright from some other file has no legal meaning (it can be used to
	incorporate common strings into the binary, but has no effect on the
	status of the source code).
 
     o  Things that are copyrighted are, by definition, not in the public
	domain.
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