How much of 2bsd src could be "free?"
Rahul Dhesi
dhesi%cirrusl at oliveb.ATC.olivetti.com
Wed Nov 21 14:36:16 AEST 1990
In <1990Nov17.041611.1213 at lonex.radc.af.mil> sms at lonex.radc.af.mil
(Steven M. Schultz) writes:
> *sigh* cities, states, countries recognize "historical landmarks"
> and grant all manner of special privileges, etc - it would sure
> be nice if the source license restriction would be lifted or eased
> for those who want to use the machine that played a major role in the
> life of Unix.
Maybe we could begin a letter-writing campaign asking AT&T to place
/bin/true in the public domain, so we can freely use the algorithms
used therein? That would be a good initial step towards making the
rest of UNIX more accessible to all. The current implementation
appears to be covered by *both* copyright and trade secret.
Until them, here's my own implementation of /bin/true. I have created
by after carefully reverse-engineering AT&T's version.
--cut here--cut here--cut here--beginning of /bin/true
--cut here--cut here--cut here--end of /bin/true
--
Rahul Dhesi <dhesi%cirrusl at oliveb.ATC.olivetti.com>
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