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- From: grog@adagio.UUCP (Greg Lehey)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: Is AT&T listening?...
- Message-ID: <1834@adagio.UUCP>
- Date: 25 Jul 92 12:01:28 GMT
- References: <1992Jul23.200547.22246@cs.rose-hulman.edu> <97@ampr.ab.ca>
- Organization: LEMIS, Schellnhausen 2, W-6324 Feldatal, Germany
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- In article <97@ampr.ab.ca> lyndon@ampr.ab.ca (Lyndon Nerenberg) writes:
- >Yes, they're listening. cjc@ulysses.att.com was kind enough to point
- >out that one of my previous postings about the copying of /bin/true
- >source code was incorrect. It is in fact, as he stated in e-mail, the
- >BSD version of /bin/true that contains 'echo 0'. The System V version
- >of /bin/true instead contains five lines of copyright notice, one line
- >of version control information, and a colon.
-
- The number of lines of code is irrelevant; what's important is the
- copyright notice. Look, for example, at an AT&T version of /etc/fstab.
- Do you have something like:
-
- # Copyright (c) 1984, 1986, 1987, 1988 AT&T
- # All Rights Reserved
-
- # THIS IS UNPUBLISHED PROPRIETARY SOURCE CODE OF AT&T
- # No, come to think of it, this is utter bullshit. Apart
- # from this copyright notice, everything in this file has
- # been created by the local sysop. It contains no source
- # code whatsoever.
- # The copyright notice above does not evidence any
- # actual or intended publication of such source code.
-
- #ident "@(#)fstab.sh 2.3 - 88/05/26"
-
- # format: mountdev fs [-[rd]] [fstype]
- # This file is used by /etc/mount, /etc/mountall, and /etc/rmountall
-
-
- /dev/dsk/0s3 /usr
- /dev/dsk/1s4 /src
- allegro:/usr /allegro/usr NFS,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,soft
- allegro:/ /allegro/root NFS,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,soft
- allegro:/bsdi /bsdi NFS,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,soft
- allegro:/var /var NFS,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,soft
- allegro:/pub /pub NFS,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,soft
- # grave:/ /grave NFS,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,soft
- # /dev/dsk/0p1 /c DOS
-
- Presumably I would not be able to give a copy of this file to a
- customer without an AT&T license, since it contains an AT&T copyright
- statement. I am not even allowed to remove it. It's not clear what
- would happen if I were to remove the file and start again from
- scratch, and what the difference would be between that line of action
- and just removing the copyright notice.
-
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