Date: Wed, 30 Aug 1995 04:09:04 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> To: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, paul@FreeBSD.org, ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: copyright notices for ports/packages Message-ID: <199508301109.EAA07912@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> In-Reply-To: <199508300855.BAA17783@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> from "Satoshi Asami" at Aug 30, 95 01:55:00 am
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> > * Please do not install Copyright files with the binaries as it has no > * legal significance. > > Well ok so maybe it has no legal significance, but I think it's just > fair for us to recognize the fine work of the authors who made these > things available for free. > > Yeah I don't like shoving GPL in the face of the user to do that > either but many copyright notices include nice lists of > acknowledgements and stuff that I really like to put somewhere the > user can easily find. Perhaps you should write a guide for ``freeware'' port writers that includes these types of details so they start to provide a nice little file just like what you need :-). Then send your guide out to the 300+ authors of the current FreeBSD ported software packages as your contribution to the future promotion of freeware. Call it something catching and you make it big enough and you can turn it into a Nutshell book and make a little $$$ on the side :-). xv is a very good example of how to present this type of stuff in an X application as one example. The HP-UX and Apollo/HP DOMAIN OS boot time copyright notice is another way for a text based system (the copyright notices on these OS's is formidable and one of the few that I have seen to be reasonably complete as far as covering all of the code shipped with the OS :-)). -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Reliable computers for FreeBSD
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