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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!sdd.hp.com!col.hp.com!csn!csn!raven!rcd From: rcd@raven.eklektix.com (Dick Dunn) Subject: Re: 4.4BSD Release Message-ID: <1993Jul14.075929@eklektix.com> Organization: eklektix - Boulder, Colorado References: <iss30as@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com> <20251@smoke.brl.mil> <21juef$ri6@agate.berkeley.edu> Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1993 07:59:29 GMT Lines: 21 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.