Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!PITTVMS.BITNET!LEFF From: LEFF@PITTVMS.BITNET Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth Subject: Re: Declining Forth popularity. Message-ID: <8912210102.AA02080@jade.berkeley.edu> Date: 19 Dec 89 21:52:00 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: Forth Interest Group International List Organization: The Internet Lines: 23 Interesting points about a copyright notice--you are absolutely correct about the (c) symbol not being legal--you need to spell out copyright or use the abreviation Co., followed by the year and the agent who holds the copyright. Of course if you can produce a "c with a circle" this will substitute legally as you have mentioned. The thing you did not mention is the simple fact that you MUST REGISTER YOUR PRODUCT with the Copyright office in Washington or else you legally have nothing! Also, this fine difference between putting software in the public domain, and making it publically available is moot unless you secure legal rights by registering your product. Once you have a legal copyright, THEN you can dictate how your product is used, copied, reused, resold, etc... I went through all this when I took my public domain program VT100.C64 out of the public domain, improved it, copyrighted it and THEN, sold it to a local firm under the name EMULATOR.100, a true VT100/VT102/VT52 terminal emulator for the Commodre 64, and written in FORTH! It's marketed by Allegheny Software Works, P.O. Box 7103, Pgh., PA 15213, and they have done very well with this FORTH based commercial package!