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- From: hsu@pix.com (Dagwood Splits the Atom)
- Subject: Re: AT&T vs. BSDI --> 4.3BSD-NET2 distribution requires AT&T license!!!
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- Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 16:11:24 GMT
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- In article <16r3icINNhi3@wendy-fate.UU.NET> kyle@wendy-fate.UU.NET (Kyle Jones) writes:
- >jfw@ksr.com (John F. Woods) writes:
- > > The problem is that the law basically *requires* that the copyright get in your
- > > face.
- >
- >Yeah, but does all the verbiage have to be up front?
-
- No, it doesn't. For the purpose of copyright notice, placement at the end
- of the file is sufficient. Quoting from an old circular (R61, Copyright
- Registration for Computer Programs) I dug out of my files...
-
- LOCATION OF COPYRIGHT NOTICE
- Section 201,20(g), 37 C.F.R.
-
- (g) WORKS REPRODUCED IN MACHINE-READABLE COPIES
-
- For works reproduced in machine-readable copies (such as magnetic
- tapes or disks, punched cards, or the like), from which the work cannot
- ordinarily be visually perceived except with the aid of a machine or
- device,(footnote 1) each of the following constitute examples of
- acceptable methods of affixation and position of notice:
-
- (1) A notice embodied in the copies in machine-readable form in such
- a manner that on visually perceptible printouts it appears either with
- or near the title, or at the end of the work;
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- ...
-
- Footnote 1 is an explanation that works requiring only optical enlargement
- (such as microfiche) and works published in visually perceptible form but
- used in connection with optical scanning devices are not included in this
- category.
-
- Disclaimer: I'm not a lawyer. Reading this stuff is just a hobby. Don't
- ask me any detailed questions about intellectual property law.
-
- -dave
-
- --
- Dave Hsu <hsu@pix.com> -or- <hsu@eng.umd.edu>
- Caffeine and Salsa Czar "Yeah? Well there are a lot of people out
- Pix Technologies Corporation there who are full of shit and making money.
- Have nerds, will telnet. And *I'm* not going to be the exception."
-