Re: LYNX-DEV Copyright statement

[Benjamin C. W. Sittler]

Don't you think the links from Subir's help pages are enough? Or should
Lynx have a copy of the warranty and conditions compiled into it,
accessible from a compiled-in help page or with --warranty and
--conditions command-line options? And should it tell how to get this
stuff everytime it starts? The "screen" terminal-multiplexing system, for
example, uses a splash-screen on startup that displays this information,
then waits for a keypress to go away.

On Fri, 7 Mar 1997, Larry W. Virden, x2487 wrote:

> The GNU COPYING file implies that a program such as lynx should:
> 
> "...  output a short notice like this
> when it starts in an interactive mode:
> 
>     Gnomovision version 69, Copyright (C) 19yy name of author
>     Gnomovision comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `show w'.
>     This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
>     under certain conditions; type `show c' for details.
> 
> The hypothetical commands `show w' and `show c' should show the appropriate
> parts of the General Public License.  Of course, the commands you use may
> be called something other than `show w' and `show c'; they could even be
> mouse-clicks or menu items--whatever suits your program."

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