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Back when I was writing software (instead of writing ABOUT software), there
was a certain place in the code reserved for a boilerplate copyright
notice, very much like the one appearing in the manual but specialized to
cover only the code, algorithms, etc., that the company itself produced.
This was always in plain text (not encrypted) and actually compiled into
the program as a constant, rather than as a comment. I don't know what
current practice is, but perhaps ACM or IEEE could offer some advice.
Marguerite Krupp
At 03:53 PM 7/24/98 +0100, Damien Braniff wrote:
>We, as standard, out in copyright notice for our own lit and the relevant
>refs to other products used (e.g. Microsoft). What I've now been asked is
>there any "standard" phrase etc that can be added to the manual which
>covers intellectual property , not of the manual itself, but of other
>things such as software in EPROMs etc. Where should this be covered?
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>Damien Braniff
>Technical Author
>PAC International
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