[TUHS] Early BSD license thread

[Joseph Holsten]

> On Sep 21, 2022, at 15:18, Steve Nickolas <usotsuki at buric.co> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 21 Sep 2022, Dan Cross wrote:
> 
>>> On Wed, Sep 21, 2022 at 5:50 PM Phil Budne <phil at ultimate.com> wrote:
>>> Not to excuse the failure of the BSD team to properly attribute source
>>> origin by adding only their copyright notice, but didn't AT&T try
>>> unfair turnabout by not properly attributing the origins of their
>>> TCP/IP code?
>> 
>> One of my favorite copyright notices was for /bin/true in System V.
>> An empty file got turned into 7 lines of comments holding copyright
>> boilerplate and an `#ident` line with an SCCS version number:
>> progress!
>> 
>>       - Dan C.
>> 
> 
> And then when I wrote it for my own project:
> 
> true -
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> # Does something this small need a license? - SVN
> exit 0
> 
> false -
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> # Does something this small need a license? - SVN
> exit 1
> 
> -uso.

I’ve thought of this example many times when the 9fans minimalists talk about empty-file `true` impls.

Which of course would lead to the 3.8k reported issues of https://github.com/kelseyhightower/nocode

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~j
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