I'm only going to comment where I disagree with or want to amplify Mr. Nerode. On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 04:36:24PM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > > Such reproduction must be accompanied by the following credit > > line: "Reprinted by permission from International Business > > Machines Corporation copyright (year)" which should include the > > years in the original copyright notice for publication named. > Acceptable restriction. Requires precise wording. No translation allowed. Not DFSG-free. > > The credit line normally should appear on the page where the > > reproduction appears either under the title or as a footnote. > Unsure, but "normally should" seems to give some broad leeway. Not enough, IMO. > > It is the understanding of INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES > > CORPORATION that the purpose for which its publications are being > > reproduced is accurate and true as stated in your attached > > request. > So the permission only applies to a specific "attached request"?... That's bad. > > No permission is granted to use trademarks of International > > Business Machines Corporation and its affiliates apart from the > > incidental appearance of such trademarks in the titles, text, and > > illustrations of the named publications. The appearance should not > > be of a manner which might cause confusion of origin or appear to > > endorse non-IBM products. Any proposed use of trademarks apart > > from such incidental appearance requires separate approval in > > writing and ordinarily cannot be given. > This is fine; trademark protection clauses should all look like this. Well, they should certainly look more like this than the garbage that is in the BSD license. > > COPYRIGHT LICENSE: > > > > This information contains sample application programs in source > > language, which illustrates programming techniques on various > > operating platforms. You may copy, modify, and distribute these > > sample programs in any form without payment to IBM, > This is a license grant for the 'sample programs', and it's a broader > license grant than the general grant for the 'documentation'... Where's the permission to distribute modified copies? I see no "and/or". This is the UWash/PINE problem. > > If you are viewing this information softcopy, the photographs and > > color illustrations may not appear. > Informational, no effect. Depends on what "may not" means. Sometimes I just love my native language. :( -- G. Branden Robinson | Of two competing theories or Debian GNU/Linux | explanations, all other things branden@debian.org | being equal, the simpler one is to http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | be preferred. -- Occam's Razor
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