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From: phil@henson.cc.wwu.edu (Phil Nelson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: USL's claims to "intellectual property"
Message-ID: <1992Aug13.223701.27806@henson.cc.wwu.edu>
Date: 13 Aug 92 22:37:01 GMT
Article-I.D.: henson.1992Aug13.223701.27806
References: <1992Aug13.191858.18970@telematics.com>
Organization: Western Washington University
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ted@telematics.com (Ted Goldblatt) writes:

>The way _I_ read the complaint and intellectual property law
>(which is sort of haphazardly), USL could be claiming any
>of 3 things (or a combination):

>2.  Net2 contains code directly lifted from (some rev of)
>    Un*x, or code that had only been cosmetically altered
>    from actual USL code.

Here is an exercise for people on this point.  Go to your net2
source code and look at the code for cpio.  (That is usr.bin/cpio/cpio.c).

--Phil