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