Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site watdaisy.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!watdaisy!ndiamond From: ndiamond@watdaisy.UUCP (Norman Diamond) Newsgroups: net.legal Subject: Re: Copyright notices Message-ID: <6789@watdaisy.UUCP> Date: Mon, 3-Dec-84 13:23:50 EST Article-I.D.: watdaisy.6789 Posted: Mon Dec 3 13:23:50 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 4-Dec-84 07:50:22 EST References: <38@cmu-cs-cad.ARPA> Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 25 Just speaking personally, I find it obnoxious when a compiler prints out a copyright notice for the compiler's vendor at the top of a listing of my program. The message literally claims that the vendor has a copyright on my source, which is utter falsehood. To put a copyright message in an object module, there still can be a string constant in the source. If the compiler tries to optimize out an unused string constant, then assign it to some external variable and then call an external function that no-ops. I am not qualified to say whether the presence of such a message legally copyrights the object module, but the message will be there. Next question: when my source is translated by a vendor's compiler to my object, who holds the copyright on the object? Related question: when my novel is translated by some one (with my permission or maybe even at my request), who holds the copyright on the novel in the other language? -- Norman Diamond UUCP: {decvax|utzoo|ihnp4|allegra|clyde}!watmath!watdaisy!ndiamond CSNET: ndiamond%watdaisy@waterloo.csnet ARPA: ndiamond%watdaisy%waterloo.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa "Opinions are those of the keyboard, and do not reflect on me or higher-ups."