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Re: Tex IP attribution error on startup page
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Oliver Thomas)
Wed May 7 15:56:12 2003
Date: Wed, 7 May 2003 15:56:10 -0400
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Cc: Oliver Thomas <othomas@mit.edu>, release-team@mit.edu
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From: Oliver Thomas <othomas@MIT.EDU>
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On Wednesday, May 7, 2003, at 03:37 PM, Greg Hudson wrote:
> I'm not sure what you mean by the "tex startup page." Users who run
> tex
> do not automatically receive any message about owership of intellectual
> property as far as I know (contrary to what Oliver said).
I admit it, I haven't run tex in a while....
On Wednesday, May 7, 2003, at 03:29 PM, Phillip Long wrote:
> Oliver: Yup - I got this info in a voice mail from Vijay via the
> library. I'll relisten and forward it to you to listen to, as well.
> Perhaps we should push back but the request was clear.
If it is indeed about the thesis templates, then I am the de-facto
owner of it. It used to be owned by the FL's, then it went into limbo a
while ago and the last time updates needed to be made I was the one who
made them. However, the tex thesis template and the Libraries' thesis
guidelines seem to be aligned. The tex thesis template says, on its
cover page (/mit/thesis/tex/cover.tex):
==========
An Optimizing Compiler for Low-Level Floating
Point Operations
by
Lucien William Van Elsen
Submitted to the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer
Science
in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Engineering
at the
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
May 1990
(c) Lucien William Van Elsen, MCMXC. All rights reserved.
The author hereby grants to MIT permission to reproduce and
distribute publicly paper and electronic copies of this thesis document
in whole or in part.
==========
The Libraries say (at
http://libraries.mit.edu/archives/thesis-specs/#copy):
The Institute's policy concerning ownership of copyrights
to theses is covered in Rules and Regulations of the
Faculty, regulation 2.71. The following are the relevant
provisions: the Institute will hold ownership of the copy-
rights to theses only if
1. the thesis research is performed in whole or in part
by the student with financial support in the form of wages,
salary, stipend, or grant from funds administered by the
Institute
and/or
2. the thesis research is performed in whole or in part
utilizing equipment or facilities provided to the Institute
under conditions that impose copyright restrictions.
In all other cases, ownership of copyright shall reside with
the student.
When copyright ownership is held by the student, the student
must, as condition of a degree award, grant royalty-free per-
mission to the Institute to reproduce and publicly distribute
copies of the thesis, and must place the following legend on
the thesis title page: "The author hereby grants to MIT per-
mission to reproduce and to distribute publicly paper and
electronic copies of this thesis document in whole or in part."
Seems to be the same? You may want to take this back to them and find
out what they were talking about.
Oliver
