Re: LYNX-DEV Copyrights, UKans et al.

[Scott McGee (Personal)]

Fote mentioned his reasons for feeling that a copyright notice change is not
needed. I reflect almost all of his sentiments, but because of that, _DO_
want to see a change in the copyright notice. Mainly, I too want to see the
copyright go unchallenged. To help this out, I would prefer a copyright notice
that spells out the fact that _we_ (lynx-dev in general) DO know what we are
doing, thus (hopefully at least) making it seem a bit more likely that a 
copyright infringement would _not_ go unchallenged.

Having said this, might I make a final suggestion:

Lynx $VERSION
Copyrights held by CERN, the University of Kansas, and other contributers.
Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
See http://lynx.browser.org/ for further information, help, and bug reports.

I think here that the inclusion of CERN and the University of Kansas puts
people on notice that two instituions who _DO_ have the ability to fight a
copyright infringement are, in fact, among the copyright holders. Further,
it clearly spells out that Lynx is fully copyrighted. Finally, the mention
of the GPL lets most people know immediately what limitations are (and are
not) placed on its use, and the final line tells others where to go if they
feel they need more information.

Having said this, I decided to go one step further. Here is my first diff
contribution to Lynx. I modified src/LYMain.c to output as noted above, and
did a "diff -c src/LYMain.c src/LYMain.c.orig" to generate it. I hope I 
didn't get it backwards. Anyway, I hope that it will be concidered for
inclusion in one of the next few modifications. Does anyone actually object?

*** src/LYMain.c        Sat Mar  8 00:32:18 1997
--- src/LYMain.c.orig   Sat Mar  8 00:27:13 1997
***************
*** 1938,1948 ****
        parse_restrictions("all");
  
      } else if (strncmp(argv[0], "-version", 8) == 0) {
!       printf("\n%s Version %s\n", LYNX_NAME, LYNX_VERSION);
!     printf("Copyrights held by CERN, the University of Kansas, and other 
contributers.\n");
!     printf("Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public 
License.\n");
!     printf("See http://lynx.browser.org/ for further information, help, and 
bug reports.\n\n");
!                       exit(0);
  
      } else if (strncmp(argv[0], "-vikeys", 7) == 0) {
        vi_keys = TRUE;
--- 1938,1947 ----
        parse_restrictions("all");
  
      } else if (strncmp(argv[0], "-version", 8) == 0) {
!       printf("\n%s Version %s\n(c)1997 GNU General Public License\n\
! <URL:http://lynx.browser.org/>\n\n",
!               LYNX_NAME, LYNX_VERSION);
!       exit(0);
  
      } else if (strncmp(argv[0], "-vikeys", 7) == 0) {
        vi_keys = TRUE;

Scott

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