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- From: macro@cup.hp.com (Patrick MacRoberts)
- Subject: Re: USL's claims to "intellectual property"
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- 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
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- References: <1992Aug13.191858.18970@telematics.com>
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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).
-
- 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- /* THIS IS UNPUBLISHED PROPRIETARY SOURCE CODE OF AT&T */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?
-