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From: EVERHART%ARISIA.DECnet
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 1988 15:19

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This question is basically for RMS.
You'd like folks to attach copylefts to code sent to this list (and it's
not such a bad idea to do for other code also).
  However the darn copyleft is AWFULLY long.
  Is there a "generic" copyleft one might include by reference...
i.e., something like
Copyright 1988 (fill in your name or whatever)
Conditions of this copyright follow the copyright statements
and conditions contained in document "COPYING" titled "Free Software
Foundation Copyright and General Public License"

where the COPYING document (might be better to give it a less
generic filename) would be a once-for-all standard?
  A legally tight copyleft statement is desired by many PD software
authors I've come into contact with, but most prefer to add only 2
or 3 lines to their files. Make it easy to do it right and it'll be
done right oftener!
Glenn Everhart
Everhart%Arisia.decnet@ge-crd.arpa

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