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From: wollman@sadye (Garrett Wollman)
Subject: Re: Selling 386BSD
Message-ID: <1992Aug16.021934.5330@uvm.edu>
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References: <1992Aug12.100430.3467@Urmel.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE> <1557@hcshh.hcs.de> <1992Aug14.195609.29096@gateway.novell.com>
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 02:19:34 GMT
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In article <1992Aug14.195609.29096@gateway.novell.com> terry@ithaca.Eng.Sandy.Novell.COM (Terry Lambert) writes:
> That we are able to have a free system now is due in large part
>do the commercialization and recontribution of code by companies like
>Genentech (which springs to mind; there are others -- check the various
>redistribution copyright notices in the source files) to BSD for free
>redistribution.
I felt that this was an important enough point that I grepped all the
copyright notices out of the system that I could find (I forget
whether I did a `strings -' on the kernel or something else), and
added the following to my /etc/rc:
cat <<'EOH'
Copyright 1980-1992, Regents of the University of California
Copyright 1987, 1989, 1990, 1991, Carnegie Mellon University
Copyright 1988, 1989, Intel Corporation
Copyright 1988, 1990, University of Utah
Copyright 1988, Julian Onions
Copyright 1989-1992, William F. Jolitz, TeleMuse
Copyright 1992, Garrett A. Wollman
Copyright 1992, University of Vermont and State Agricultural College
EOH
# set hostname, turn on network
-GAWollman
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