[27] in Zephyr_Comments
copyright notices
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jerome H. Saltzer)
Wed Apr 27 14:15:09 1988
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 88 14:13:54 EDT
To: zephyr-comments@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
From: Jerome H. Saltzer <Saltzer@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
In looking over the Zephyr man pages two (minor) copyright notice
problems jump out.
1. Several of the pages have, in addition to the copyright notice, a
blanket release notice, apparently the one used for X. The release
notice is inappropriate, because the M.I.T. Technology Licensing
Office hasn't yet been asked to approve release of this software.
(We make that request for one package at a time. X, RVD, and PC/IP
have been approved, Kerberos is in the works.) Although it is the
intent to make that request (and the expectation that it will be
approved) until they say so, the notice shouldn't appear. The
correct notice is the single line saying "Copyright 1987 by the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology."
2. Some of the man pages refer to the reader to ZEPHYR(1) for a
"full copyright notice." Legally, the "full copyright notice" must
appear on page one of each man section. But, legally, the full
copyright notice is the single line; the rest of the stuff is a
"blanket release" that describes conditions of use. A more
appropriate reference to appear in everything other than ZEPHYR(1)
would be, for example, "The conditions of use described in
conjunction with the copyright notice on Zephyr(1) apply also to this
program and its documentation."
The same two comments apply to the sources themselves. A single
include file that describes conditions of use (and empty until the
technology licensing office approves release) can be used, but each
file needs to have its own copy of the copyright line.
Jerry
