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The MDL Programming Language by S. W. Galley and Greg Pfister
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Closed GaseousCow closed 8 years ago

GaseousCow commented 8 years ago

The page 1-basic-introduction.markdown contained a hyperlink to 5-simplefunctions.markdown and it should be 5-simple-functions.markdown

GaseousCow commented 8 years ago

Adding a more detailed analysis of this document's copyright status, making the argument that it's actually in the public domain in the United States for a few different reasons (Referring to the version of US copyright law that existed at that time and also making references to the requirements in FARS.) Also changing the comment about Distribution Statement A to be more of arguing in the alternative: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_in_the_alternative

GaseousCow commented 8 years ago

Good point. I'd not considered that and am not sure what it best. Perhaps it could be re-worded entirely to avoid the problem, like "This document was not registered with the U.S. Copyright Office at any point" or something.

GaseousCow commented 8 years ago

As far as credit goes I am fine with none. To avoid concerns over copyright over this contribution: To the extent possible under law, I waive all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this what I wrote in the Copyright section of this book and place it under CC0: http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

taradinoc commented 8 years ago

Sounds good, can you make that change before I merge the PR?

And also change "Greg Pfister, the original author of this document" to "Greg Pfister, the original author of the document" to clarify that you mean The MDL Programming Language, not index.markdown.

GaseousCow commented 8 years ago

This has been done.