Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bu-cs!tower From: tower@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Leonard H. Tower Jr.) Newsgroups: comp.sources.d Subject: Re: COPYRIGHT NOTICES Message-ID: <12133@bu-cs.BU.EDU> Date: Thu, 20-Aug-87 14:37:50 EDT Article-I.D.: bu-cs.12133 Posted: Thu Aug 20 14:37:50 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 22-Aug-87 11:03:36 EDT References: <6236@brl-smoke.ARPA> <25095@sun.uucp> Reply-To: tower@bu-cs.bu.edu Organization: Distributed Systems Group, Boston University, 111 Cummington Street, Boston, MA 02215, USA +1 (617) 353-2780 Lines: 53 Home: 36 Porter Street, Somerville, MA 02143, USA +1 (617) 623-7739 In article <25095@sun.uucp> chuq@sun.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach) writes: > In article <6236@brl-smoke.ARPA> gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn ) writes: > >I've seen a lot of software posted to comp.sources.* recently > >that include (attempted) Copyright notices. I don't know what > >the point of including such notices in broadcast code is, but > >I've just been tossing it since if the copyright is legal I > >cannot make a copy of it to compile, etc. Please cut it out! Maybe the moderators should do some filtering on copyright notices?? > But some of the copyright notices I've seen are quite reasonable. For example, the Copyright notices on GNU Software (example below). > My cut on this is that stuff shuold be put into the public domain unless > there is a clear reason not to (adl, for instance, has interesting > possibilities...). But simply because it is on the broadcast net don't > assume that the copyright is invalid. And if the copyright restrictions are > unreasonable, either toss the code or talk to the author about it. My preference for this stuff is that software should be made freely redistributable, and be legally protected by Copyright Notices et.al. to keep it freely redistributable. Oh, for a copy of the GNU Public License or further information on the project contact aka <..!ucbvax.!prep.ai.mit.edu!gnu> enjoy -len # Makefile for GNU C compiler. # Copyright (C) 1987 Free Software Foundation, Inc. #This file is part of GNU CC. #GNU CC is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, #but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY. No author or distributor #accepts responsibility to anyone for the consequences of using it #or for whether it serves any particular purpose or works at all, #unless he says so in writing. Refer to the GNU CC General Public #License for full details. #Everyone is granted permission to copy, modify and redistribute #GNU CC, but only under the conditions described in the #GNU CC General Public License. A copy of this license is #supposed to have been given to you along with GNU CC so you #can know your rights and responsibilities. It should be in a #file named COPYING. Among other things, the copyright notice #and this notice must be preserved on all copies. -- Len Tower, Distributed Systems Group, Boston University, 111 Cummington Street, Boston, MA 02215, USA +1 (617) 353-2780 Home: 36 Porter Street, Somerville, MA 02143, USA +1 (617) 623-7739 UUCP: {}!harvard!bu-cs!tower INTERNET: tower@bu-cs.bu.edu