[TUHS] Early BSD license thread

[Steve Nickolas]

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.