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From: rcd@raven.eklektix.com (Dick Dunn)
Subject: Re: 4.4BSD Release
Message-ID: <1993Jul14.075929@eklektix.com>
Organization: eklektix - Boulder, Colorado
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Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1993 07:59:29 GMT
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bostic@toe.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Keith Bostic) writes:
[discussion of copyright stuff--Vern Schryver, Doug Gwyn]
>...I believe that
>USL/AT&T/Novell is required to credit the University of
>California for the 4BSD software that they ship, and I don't
>think that they do.

One wonders if AT&T has some generic problem in respecting other folks'
copyrights.  I remember a former office-mate working on some X joint
project with AT&T, and nearly going ballistic when he saw the AT&T folks
yanking MIT copyrights out of source files as they moved them around.  I
don't want to paint AT&T with a broad brush...there are good folks and bad
folks, but it seems not too difficult to find sleazy subcultures.

It's not as if it's a big deal to retain either Berkeley or MIT copyright
notices; they don't require anything more than acknowledgment and common
decency.  I wonder what the folks who were trashing copyright notices were
afraid of...and yes, the hypocrisy is pretty blatant.
-- 
Dick Dunn    rcd@eklektix.com   -or-   raven!rcd    Boulder, Colorado USA
   ...Simpler is better.