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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!ogicse!reed!henson!phil 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 Lines: 14 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