Re: [LAD] students and copyright

On Sunday 02 August 2009, Dave Phillips wrote: Everything I ever wrote with 3 exceptions, carried a copyright (date) Maurice E. Heskett. The first 2 exceptions are anything I wrote for the trs-80 color computer, which I long ago placed in the public domain, some of which is 10 to 20 years later, on hardware installation disks from at least one src yet today. And anything I've written for linux has been GPLv2 only since 11 years ago. The other exception was a control program that was very useful to tv stations doing their own commercial production, and the target machine was quite cramped for memory, so it was only in the srcs. How proud one can be about his output is best stated by the longevity of that output, several of my projects for the 'coco' are now 20 years old & still in use, and 2 programs I wrote for television stations have enjoyed lifetimes of over a decade. Distribution of those however, wasn't an issue, AFAIK, only one copy of each of those ever existed, they were written, and the hardware needed built, to address a specific need. I do know that the mention of my device and program while at their booth at the NAB in 1981, caused MicroTime to drop a project they were working on which was not as capable in the model they had there. Why they didn't just come and ask, I'll never know. As for the removal of the names of the earlier contributors to the software that started this bit of an endless and sometimes smoking thread, I would hope that there exists in writing, a letter available to Mr. Keller, allowing their copyrights to be removed, or that their contributions have all been re-written in a clean room environment, with the re-writers never having had access to the original code. If a code contribution has been completely removed, only then can the copyright notice also be removed. This last option is well established practice and seems to have stood the test of legal time. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) The NRA is offering FREE Associate memberships to anyone who wants them. <https://www.nrahq.org/nrabonus/accept-membership.asp> Q: Why did Menachem Begin invade Lebanon? A: To impress Jodie Foster.