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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!mcsun!Germany.EU.net!unido!adagio!grog From: grog@adagio.UUCP (Greg Lehey) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: Is AT&T listening?... Message-ID: <1834@adagio.UUCP> Date: 25 Jul 92 12:01:28 GMT References: <1992Jul23.200547.22246@cs.rose-hulman.edu> <97@ampr.ab.ca> Organization: LEMIS, Schellnhausen 2, W-6324 Feldatal, Germany Lines: 51 In article <97@ampr.ab.ca> lyndon@ampr.ab.ca (Lyndon Nerenberg) writes: >Yes, they're listening. cjc@ulysses.att.com was kind enough to point >out that one of my previous postings about the copying of /bin/true >source code was incorrect. It is in fact, as he stated in e-mail, the >BSD version of /bin/true that contains 'echo 0'. The System V version >of /bin/true instead contains five lines of copyright notice, one line >of version control information, and a colon. The number of lines of code is irrelevant; what's important is the copyright notice. Look, for example, at an AT&T version of /etc/fstab. Do you have something like: # Copyright (c) 1984, 1986, 1987, 1988 AT&T # All Rights Reserved # THIS IS UNPUBLISHED PROPRIETARY SOURCE CODE OF AT&T # No, come to think of it, this is utter bullshit. Apart # from this copyright notice, everything in this file has # been created by the local sysop. It contains no source # code whatsoever. # The copyright notice above does not evidence any # actual or intended publication of such source code. #ident "@(#)fstab.sh 2.3 - 88/05/26" # format: mountdev fs [-[rd]] [fstype] # This file is used by /etc/mount, /etc/mountall, and /etc/rmountall /dev/dsk/0s3 /usr /dev/dsk/1s4 /src allegro:/usr /allegro/usr NFS,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,soft allegro:/ /allegro/root NFS,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,soft allegro:/bsdi /bsdi NFS,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,soft allegro:/var /var NFS,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,soft allegro:/pub /pub NFS,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,soft # grave:/ /grave NFS,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,soft # /dev/dsk/0p1 /c DOS Presumably I would not be able to give a copy of this file to a customer without an AT&T license, since it contains an AT&T copyright statement. I am not even allowed to remove it. It's not clear what would happen if I were to remove the file and start again from scratch, and what the difference would be between that line of action and just removing the copyright notice. -- Greg Lehey | Tel: +49-6637-1488 LEMIS | Fax: +49-6637-1489 Schellnhausen 2, W-6324 Feldatal, Germany *** NOTE ***: Headers are mangled - reply to grog%lemis@Germany.EU.net