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- From: lm@slovax.Eng.Sun.COM (Larry McVoy)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: AT&T vs. BSDI --> 4.3BSD-NET2 distribution requires AT&T license!!!
- Message-ID: <l8hhhkINN695@appserv.Eng.Sun.COM>
- Date: 12 Aug 92 08:05:08 GMT
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- Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc. Mt. View, Ca.
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- bostic@toe.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Keith Bostic) writes:
- : In article <1992Aug8.160024.3222@sceard.Sceard.COM> mrm@sceard.COM (M.R.Murphy) writes:
- : >How I love it when the copyright blather takes more space in a source
- : >distribution than the code itself. See USL /bin/true and CSRG
- : >/usr/include/strings.h. Couldn't it just be included once or read into the
- : >record, or assumed, or inserted with a TECO macro built into the kernel? It is
- : >wasteful of disk space and offensive to sensitive people.
- :
- : It can't be included once and fulfill its purpose, the lawyers we've
- : consulted are consistent on that one.
- :
- : To argue that it should only be put in "files that are sufficiently
- : important", while logically appealing, is not reasonable. To reword
- : your request, you want me to make a decision on a file-by-file basis
- : for a system with thousands of files, and then revisit the decision
- : every time a file is modified. I don't think I get paid enough for that.
-
- I don't mind the copyrights as long as they don't get in my face. How about
- one of these:
-
- 1) #include <sys/copyright.h>
- 2) Put the @%$! copyright at the *bottom* of the file instead
- of the top. Surely the lawyers can't tell the difference,
- right?
-
- I'd be happy to provide a perl script that does #2. For the whole
- BSD source base.
- ---
- Larry McVoy (415) 336-7627 lm@sun.com
-