Re: [LAD] students and copyright

On Sunday 02 August 2009, Dave Phillips wrote:
>Greetings,
>
>Just out of curiosity, how many participants in this discussion are
>copyright holders ? How many of you have published works under copyright ?
>
>Best,
>
>dp
>
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.

-- 
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