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
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Rahul Dhesi <dhesi%cirrusl at oliveb.ATC.olivetti.com>
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