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Re: [Alex T Prengel] Addendum to Transcript man page
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex T Prengel)
Mon Aug 31 16:50:44 1998
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
Cc: alexp@MIT.EDU, release-team@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 29 Aug 1998 17:10:47 EDT."
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Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 16:50:37 EDT
From: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>
> * First, I would really like to see changes of this nature
> requested with the release cycle taken into account--that
> is, requested during the spring if any kind of rapid
> resolution is important.
That's fine- I didn't do it previously because no one requested this.
If I can just put a text README somewhere, that's fine with me (see below).
> * I don't understand your explanation referencing "a summary
> of some license obligations," apparently irrespective of
> particular pieces of software. I would think that how we
> handle Adobe software is only restricted by our license with
> Adobe
It is- but concerning responsibility for compliance, there are two
components- 1. obligations that MIT (the licensee) has exclusive
control over, and responsibility for, like paying them, granting access
to the software, and lots of other stuff.
2. obligations that MIT end-users inherit, but that are partially or
entirely in their control- things like "reverse engineering" the
software, copying it elsewhere and so on...
End-users don't need to know of things in category 1. but they should be aware
of those in category 2 (at least according to the MIT lawyers, and I agree
with them for the most part), which is the point of "a summary of some
license obligations".
> I would be surprised to find that our license
> with Adobe qrequires modifications to their own man pages.
It doesn't! As I tried (perhaps too obscurely) to explain, we decided
this, as a means of getting the message out to users for an application
that wasn't in a locker but comes with a man page. I'd be perfectly happy
to plop it into some directory as an ASCII README, if a suitable directory
exists- that's what I do in lockers (via the README.athena file).
