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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..."
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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