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- From: lemke@MITL.COM (Kennedy Lemke)
- Subject: Advice needed on copyright notice
- Message-ID: <1992Jul31.161301.26336@MITL.COM>
- Originator: lemke@narnia.MITL.COM
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- Organization: Matsushita Information Technology Laboratory, Princeton, NJ
- Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 16:13:01 GMT
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- Question:
-
- [I hope this is an appropriate group for this question--
- if not, can you please point me to an appropriate group?]
-
- Programmers at our company occasionally make useful
- modifications to shareware/freeware. We would like
- to give back to the internet community by sharing these
- modifications. According to our company policy, we are
- allowed to share such software modifications freely as
- long a a standard copyright notice is included in the code.
-
- If we write a piece of code from scratch, including the
- copyright notice is easy; but what is the best or standard
- way to ask that a copyright notice be included when the code
- is modifications to someone else's programs (for example, this
- might just be a few additions/changes to a few lines of code
- in each of several files)? Is it typical to include a copyright
- as part of a patch file, for example? Or do folks typically
- just include the copyright notice in a README with a description
- of the contributions? Any ideas/standard ways of doing this
- would be appreciated.
-
- Please email me as I don't read this group regularly.
-
- Kennedy Lemke
- Network and UNIX Systems Administrator
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