Thanks; I pointed at the Landley site. The citation needed tag doesn't refer to any particular epoch, so that letter should serve.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Tony Harminc [t...@harminc.net] Sent: Tuesday, May 19, 2020 9:22 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Licensed source code On Mon, 18 May 2020 at 22:54, Seymour J Metz <sme...@gmu.edu> wrote: > Does anybody have an announcement or other document that I can cite for > "The source code is covered by a non-disclosure agreement or a license that > allows, for example, study and modification, but not redistribution." in > the wikipedia article [[Proprietary software]] to document IBM's licensed > terms for the optional source code of a program product. It doesn't matter > which product, but it would be nice if the document were publicly available > online. Thanks. > If you search for the phrase "Restricted Materials of IBM" you'll find some appropriate hits. IIRC this wording came into use only as part of OCO, and applied to the remaining source code that came with the OCO modules. The hit at http://secure-web.cisco.com/1vcqE9rYd4hSoSAMCYR1RfhZCad8CqSJw1CJkhJEPb8cQ6YgEzyAxEhCePjuJIm_8MoRBCCxbGOm2p853-OxGxfcd5Qyk5GbaiF8GOiGCNhSxpLh-ciBE2pRW3fixUSuguf5kRIu0wYDIHYsTw04DZlx56eSjuBsZOWXkA2BQ2srWnLOfn_rN-i_CGAKaQUdYGWNBAzUYqCxGmjvG1MIWDIbZWszO-qynIdJUzI6vg5hwb2AIYMVROa5Ws1CdZZQXTApRcloAd5v1bzlBJCEjEkDkzW8ltba2Uew3FfULZxR9A13_exZmfQ6kCpmyfiIFg8BA4QaT-R_1-R_OmjAHzPsoGUBdyvDt5UaqwUPIQjZkSuvOHHiixjl6PtUd5p9KRUQHqaTeMjhqr1MnQuKZeN830AEcgon8h5L0BTH7W2TNbDCDspOE5aUWc-kuDzSH/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.landley.net%2Fhistory%2Fmirror%2Fibm%2Foco.html appears to be IBM's 1983 OCO announcement. Obviously it would be nicer to have an ibm.com source for such a thing, but of course an IBM source is probably more likely to be moved or deleted! And to my recollection the Wayback Machine honours robots.txt instructions, and IBM has those on almost everything. But it is here for now - not formatted as nicely as the landley.net version: https://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/ShowDoc.wss?docURL=/common/ssi/rep_ca/6/897/ENUS283-016/index.html&request_locale=en Naturally this doesn't cover the regime(s) for source code predating the OCO announcement. Tony H. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
