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- From: mike@sisters.cs.uoregon.edu (Michael John Haertel)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: USL's claims to "intellectual property"
- Message-ID: <1992Aug14.020039.12126@cs.uoregon.edu>
- Date: 14 Aug 92 02:00:39 GMT
- References: <1992Aug13.191858.18970@telematics.com> <1992Aug13.223701.27806@henson.cc.wwu.edu>
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- In article <1992Aug13.223701.27806@henson.cc.wwu.edu> phil@henson.cc.wwu.edu (Phil Nelson) writes:
- >ted@telematics.com (Ted Goldblatt) writes:
- >>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).
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- I believe AT&T explicitly placed their implementation of cpio
- in the public domain some years back, in the hopes of getting
- people to use cpio format.
-
- They also did the same thing with their implementation of getopt(3).
-