[TUHS] Early BSD license thread

Dan Cross crossd at gmail.com
Thu Sep 22 08:09:02 AEST 2022


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.


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