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- 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
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- 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
-