From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_HOTMAIL_RCVD2, FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: a07f3367d7,1f4564c446b22de3 X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Received: by 10.224.189.75 with SMTP id dd11mr2471496qab.6.1347644341748; Fri, 14 Sep 2012 10:39:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.236.181.234 with SMTP id l70mr729030yhm.5.1347644341698; Fri, 14 Sep 2012 10:39:01 -0700 (PDT) Path: da15ni55891736qab.0!nntp.google.com!v8no4070813qap.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2012 10:39:01 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=31.52.181.203; posting-account=pmkN8QoAAAAtIhXRUfydb0SCISnwaeyg NNTP-Posting-Host: 31.52.181.203 References: <8b832d77-f40d-4360-84eb-696b186b2d05@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Time Stamping a Program in Ada-95 From: Austin Obyrne Injection-Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2012 17:39:01 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Date: 2012-09-14T10:39:01-07:00 List-Id: On Friday, September 14, 2012 5:34:43 PM UTC+1, (unknown) wrote: > >In practice I would probably post a copy to myself with recorded delivery >and not open it when I receive it back. Why not just mail it instead to the US Copyright office and register it? I don't have any problem getting this copyright recorded by various public means - I have already recorded it at the US Library of Congress - Washington. I am more interested in establishing the scope of this time stamp facility in the editor that comes with my older version of Ada compiler - Gnat 311.p. This to my mind is a very useful attribute that is indelible proof of the origin of the source code. There is no security role being claimed here either. I just thought readers might have something to add to what I said earlier about it being a useful attribute of my editor. Is it widely known and common to many other editors is what I would like to know. - adacrypt