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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!network.ucsd.edu!sdd.hp.com!hpscdc!cupnews0.cup.hp.com!macro From: macro@cup.hp.com (Patrick MacRoberts) Subject: Re: USL's claims to "intellectual property" Sender: news@cupnews0.cup.hp.com Message-ID: <MACRO.92Aug13163901@hpcobr30.cup.hp.com> In-Reply-To: phil@henson.cc.wwu.edu's message of 13 Aug 92 22:37:01 GMT Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 23:39:04 GMT Lines: 32 References: <1992Aug13.191858.18970@telematics.com> <1992Aug13.223701.27806@henson.cc.wwu.edu> Organization: HP, Cupertino, CA, USA % 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). And I found: "/* Copyright (c) 1988 AT&T */ /* All Rights Reserved */ /* THIS IS UNPUBLISHED PROPRIETARY SOURCE CODE OF AT&T */ /* The copyright notice above does not evidence any */ /* actual or intended publication of such source code. */" So I looked at the man page, and found: "The cpio command appeared in System V AT&T UNIX. This program is derived from the System V AT&T sources which were contributed to the public domain by AT&T." So, is it public domain? -Patrick -- Why would you want a 1-line sig, Paul?