EVERHART%ARISIA.decnet@GE-CRD.ARPA (11/23/88)
This question is basically for RMS. You'd like folks to attach copylefts to code sent to this list (and it's not such a bad idea to do for other code also). However the darn copyleft is AWFULLY long. Is there a "generic" copyleft one might include by reference... i.e., something like Copyright 1988 (fill in your name or whatever) Conditions of this copyright follow the copyright statements and conditions contained in document "COPYING" titled "Free Software Foundation Copyright and General Public License" where the COPYING document (might be better to give it a less generic filename) would be a once-for-all standard? A legally tight copyleft statement is desired by many PD software authors I've come into contact with, but most prefer to add only 2 or 3 lines to their files. Make it easy to do it right and it'll be done right oftener! Glenn Everhart Everhart%Arisia.decnet@ge-crd.arpa