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3 total messages Started by Art Isbell Sat, 09 Jan 1993 03:18
Software copyright procedure
#1805
Author: 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
Re: Software copyright procedure
#1811
Author: Eric P. Scott
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1993 05:52
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In article <1ilg5aINNd1m@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> isbell@cats.ucsc.edu
	(Art Isbell) writes:
>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?

For TIFFs, the proper procedure is to insert the copyright notice
in a Tag 33432 (Copyright) string [TIFF 6.0].

  N.B.: TIFF 5.0 (used prior to NS 3.0) specified the Tag 315
  (Artist) string for this purpose.

For .snd files, use  sndconvert -i  to insert the copyright
notice in the infostring.

[Do I detect a potential FAQ item here?]

					-=EPS=-
Re: Software copyright procedure
#1839
Author: andrew
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 03:47
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In article <1ilg5aINNd1m@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> isbell@cats.ucsc.edu (Art Isbell) writes:
>
>
>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?

I would talk to an attourney.  It's really the only way to go.  You
still need to submit the first and last 50 pages of code if you file
for copyright...

I'll give you the name and number of a really great international
patent and intellectual property attourney here in Houston who
understands the technology if you want...


andrew
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