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Re: Tex IP attribution error on startup page
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Phillip Long)
Wed May 7 16:10:16 2003
Date: Wed, 7 May 2003 16:10:13 -0400
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Oliver: Thanks. I will pursue with our library colleagues the perceived
conflict.
phil
On Wednesday, May 7, 2003, at 03:56 PM, Oliver Thomas wrote:
> 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
>
>
Phillip D. Long, Ph.D. -- longpd@mit.edu
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Oliver: Thanks. I will pursue with our library colleagues the
perceived conflict.
phil
On Wednesday, May 7, 2003, at 03:56 PM, Oliver Thomas wrote:
<excerpt>On Wednesday, May 7, 2003, at 03:37 PM, Greg Hudson wrote:
<excerpt>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).
</excerpt>
I admit it, I haven't run tex in a while....
On Wednesday, May 7, 2003, at 03:29 PM, Phillip Long wrote:
<excerpt>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.
</excerpt>
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
</excerpt><fontfamily><param>Helvetica</param>Phillip D. Long,
Ph.D. -- longpd@mit.edu
Senior Strategist for the Academic Computing Enterprise
MIT - N42-005 -- voice:617-452-4038
77 Massachusetts Avenue (street 211 Mass. Ave.) -- fax: 617-253-8665
Cambridge, MA 02139</fontfamily>
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