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From: Bob Eager
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2018 21:08

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On Wed, 21 Feb 2018 16:11:58 +0000, jmfbahciv wrote:

> At DEC, it was Tape Prep's job to put copyrights in documentation when
> they typed up the files for the programmers.  Source code didn't get
> copyrights.
> 
> Then, in the mid 80s, the lawyers decreed that all files had to have
> copyrights in them, including the *.EXE, *.REL, *.SAV, *.HGH, *.LIB,
> *.LOW, *.UNV files.  It had to be ASCII so that typing TYPE FOO.EXE on a
> TTY would display the copyright amid all of the cybercrud.  It was my
> job to put those in or ensure that the other guys put them in.  Spider
> figured out that putting the copyright in the job data area of the
> program would not break anything and legally protect the file.  When the
> EXE was executed, the contents of the job data area were overwritten
> with the good stuff.

It's interesting looking at the ROM listing for the IBM PC. The relevant 
area (which was used even though space was tight) had in it:

  CCOOPPYYRRIIGGHHTT  ...

Why? Because alternate bytes went in the 'high' and 'low' ROM chips. That 
way, each chip had a complete copyright notice!



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