[plt-scheme] Where to put legal notices in Scribble documentation?

From: Neil Van Dyke (neil at neilvandyke.org)
Date: Sat Feb 21 12:55:35 EST 2009

Perhaps in the right margin of the first page, where the version numbers 
and author names appear?

Neil Van Dyke wrote at 02/21/2009 12:43 PM:
> For PLaneT packages with Scribble documentation, where in the Scribble 
> documentation is a good place to put a legal notices block like the 
> following?
>
>  Copyright (c) 2009 John Smith.  This program is Free
>  Software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the
>  terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) as
>  published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3
>  of the License, or (at your option) any later version.  This
>  program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
>  but without any warranty; without even the implied warranty
>  of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.  See
>  http://www.gnu.org/licenses/ for details.  For other
>  licenses and consulting, contact the author.
>
> It needs to be where people will see it, especially so that they'll 
> know the license terms, and because lawyers will probably say it can't 
> be hidden.
>
> In my non-Scribble documentation, I've been putting it at the top of 
> the documentation, just below the identifying info for the package.  
> I'm leaning towards something like that, but in "small print".
>
> Thanks,
> Neil
>



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