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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!network.ucsd.edu!mvb.saic.com!ncr-sd!sceard!mrm From: mrm@sceard.Sceard.COM (M.R.Murphy) Subject: Re: AT&T vs. BSDI --> 4.3BSD-NET2 distribution requires AT&T license!!! Message-ID: <1992Aug12.043140.16301@sceard.Sceard.COM> Reply-To: mrm@Sceard.COM (M.R.Murphy) Organization: The Mole and Badger Association of Northern San Diego County References: <l6nibgINNje6@neuro.usc.edu> <QeTP0wq00iUyM68Gwo@andrew.cmu.edu> <1992Aug8.160024.3222@sceard.Sceard.COM> <166cciINNr2o@agate.berkeley.edu> Date: Wed, 12 Aug 92 04:31:40 GMT Lines: 32 In article <166cciINNr2o@agate.berkeley.edu> bostic@toe.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Keith Bostic) writes: >In article <1992Aug8.160024.3222@sceard.Sceard.COM> mrm@sceard.COM (M.R.Murphy) writes: >>How I love it when the copyright blather takes more space in a source >>distribution than the code itself. See USL /bin/true and CSRG >>/usr/include/strings.h. Couldn't it just be included once or read into the >>record, or assumed, or inserted with a TECO macro built into the kernel? It is >>wasteful of disk space and offensive to sensitive people. > >It can't be included once and fulfill its purpose, the lawyers we've >consulted are consistent on that one. Yep. Ought to have a copyright on each page of a book. Or at least at the beginning of each chapter. Or maybe each paragraph. Wonderful creatures, lawyers; with all the money they charge, you'd think that they could afford to buy a clue. Or, being lawyers, steal one. >To argue that it should only be put in "files that are sufficiently >important", while logically appealing, is not reasonable. To reword >your request, you want me to make a decision on a file-by-file basis >for a system with thousands of files, and then revisit the decision >every time a file is modified. I don't think I get paid enough for that. It wasn't an argument. It wasn't a request in need of rewording or otherwise. It wasn't even a complaint. It was and is a lament. The lawyers get paid too much; you don't get paid enough. You don't do it for the money, admit it. I don't do it for the money, I admit it. -- Mike Murphy mrm@Sceard.COM ucsd!sceard!mrm +1 619 598 5874