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Re: [Alex T Prengel] Addendum to Transcript man page
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex T Prengel)
Tue Sep 1 11:17:45 1998
To: Mike Barker <mbarker@MIT.EDU>
Cc: alexp@MIT.EDU, release-team@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 31 Aug 1998 21:31:53 EDT."
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Date: Tue, 01 Sep 1998 11:17:35 EDT
From: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>
>Is there an implication that we tell people to go look at it? I'm not sure
>whether anyone looks at the READMEs, but the man page additions were pretty
>"in-your-face" compared to having a directory full of license info that no
>one really looks at?
This is just what I was concerned about- I don't think the MIT legal folks
will be real happy with this unless we can point people there (as you
bring up below).
>I'm not saying it's a bad idea (actually, I like it) but do we need to tell
>people about it? E.g., perhaps use that cookie program the f_ls use to tell
>users once a year that the license info is in blahblahblah?
Well, this would be fine with me but I suspect even more hassle for
the Release Team than the "put it in the man page" solution that we
used before.
Also, at the moment the only application where this is an issue is Transcript.
Whatever is done will not need to be done for lots of applications; I can't
imagine that it would apply to more than 2-3 tops.
If you have any ideas for making users aware without making problems for
the Release Team let everyone know!
Alex
