Software copyright procedure

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From: Art Isbell
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1993 03:18

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Richard Stallman, if you're reading, you can press "n" now :-)

My client would like information on exactly how to protect her NeXTSTEP app,
the source of which she plans to distribute to licensees, against copyright
violations (as opposed to copy protection).  She remembers the Cobol world in
which the first and last 50 pages of code were submitted to the U.S. Copyright
Office - no kidding :-)

I've been dutifully placing copyright notices in each Objective-C file header,
but doing the same for nibs, tiffs, dbmodels, etc. hasn't worked so well :-)
What's the proper procedure?

Thanks for any info or info * you may be able to provide.
-- 

Art Isbell                                                      Cubic Solutions
NeXT Registered Developer #745         NeXT software development and consulting
NeXTmail: isbell@cats.UCSC.EDU                             Voice: (408)335-1154
USmail: 95018-9442                                           Fax: (408)335-2515

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From: isbell@cats.ucsc.edu (Art Isbell)
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Subject: Software copyright procedure
Date: 9 Jan 1993 03:18:02 GMT
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Summary: How does one copyright a NeXTSTEP app?
Keywords: copyright