Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ukma!gatech!emory!stiatl!meo From: meo@stiatl.UUCP (Miles O'Neal) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Copyright Madness Keywords: So sue me... Message-ID: <7042@stiatl.UUCP> Date: 26 Sep 89 14:52:19 GMT Organization: Sales Technologies Inc., "The Little Shop of Horrors..." Lines: 32 To quote from the standard MIT-distributed X11 copyright: ... |Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its |documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted, |provided that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that |both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in |supporting documentation, and that the names of Digital or MIT not be |used in advertising or publicity pertaining to distribution of the |software witt specific, written prior permission. ... So, technically, does this mean we have to quote this thing when we include code fragments as I did in my posting about XSendEvent()? While I realize that this sort of thing isn't in the spirit of X as I understand the intentions of its authors and the X Consortium (1), in light of the recent spate of territorial claimjumping suits in the software (and specifically the visual interface & related code) world, how does this DIGITAL copyright enter into things? Perhaps to save net.bandwidth from lawsuit.paranoia, we could get a clarification added, along the lines of the book copyrights which say something like, ..."except that brief excerpts may be used as examples or in reviews...". Or am I just being excessively paranoid? I must admit, I do NOT trust most corporate lawyers these days (in terms of being rational). Notes: 1) It's a group named the X Consortium, not a consortium group named X. 8^) -Miles