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Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!haven.umd.edu!uunet!not-for-mail From: sef@Kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: 386BSD vs BSDI Date: 2 Mar 1993 14:19:01 -0800 Organization: Kithrup Enterprises, Ltd. Lines: 13 Sender: sef@ftp.UU.NET Message-ID: <1n0mgmINNjat@ftp.UU.NET> References: <6407@krafla.rhi.hi.is> <1993Feb25.221456.14935@advtech.uswest.com> <1moeeuINNoo1@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> <1993Mar2.192941.8458@igor.tamri.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ftp.uu.net In article <1993Mar2.192941.8458@igor.tamri.com> jbass@igor.tamri.com (John Bass) writes: *sigh* >The Net-2 bio.c file really >say's it all ... they didn't even have the guts to do the job ... just >deleted all the code and added a copyright to the remaining function >prototypes. You cannot copyright an interface. And a function's name and arguments is an interface, and, for the ones you picked out, need to be described somewhere, so third-parties can add device drivers and the ilk. *sigh*