[8830] in Athena Bugs
vi option in mitthesis.sty
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jcbourne@Athena.MIT.EDU)
Tue Jan 14 18:28:34 1992
From: jcbourne@Athena.MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 92 18:28:20 -0500
To: bugs@Athena.MIT.EDU
Cc: anneh@fenchurch.MIT.EDU
The vi option for the cover page of a thesis, as defined in
mitthesis.sty, is just plain wrong with respect to the copyright
notice. Here's the way it does it now:
(c) John M. Doe, MCMXCII. All rights reserved.
The author hereby grants to MIT permission to reproduce and
to distribute copies of this thesis document in whole or in part.
(Notice the contradiction between "All rights reserved" and the
subsequent granting of rights to MIT.) The way that the Course 6
undergraduate office wants it (as given by the Course 6
Undergraduate Thesis guide) is:
Copyright (c) John M. Doe 1992
The author hereby grants to MIT permission to reproduce and
to distribute copies of this thesis document in whole or in part.
(The copyright symbol is my embellishment.) Correcting this would
involve changing one line in mitthesis.sty file located in
/mit/thesis/tex. Change the current line 310:
\ifodd\vithesis \copyrightnotice{\@author,
\uppercase\expandafter{\romannumeral\@degreeyear}}
to:
\ifodd\vithesis \def\@copyrightnotice{Copyright \copyright\ \@author\
\@degreeyear \par\permission}
It would be greatly appreciated if you could change this one line so
that the vi option of mitthesis.sty is accurate.
Thank you.
Julie Bourne '92
