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Article #91Re: How much of 2bsd src could be "free?"
From: Rahul Dhesi
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 1990 03:36
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 1990 03:36
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In <1990Nov17.041611.1213@lonex.radc.af.mil> sms@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@oliveb.ATC.olivetti.com> UUCP: oliveb!cirrusl!dhesi
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple!olivea!tymix!cirrusl!sunstorm!dhesi From: dhesi%cirrusl@oliveb.ATC.olivetti.com (Rahul Dhesi) Newsgroups: comp.bugs.2bsd Subject: Re: How much of 2bsd src could be "free?" Message-ID: <2731@cirrusl.UUCP> Date: 21 Nov 90 03:36:16 GMT References: <1990Nov15.165900.3481@watmath.waterloo.edu> <1990Nov17.041611.1213@lonex.radc.af.mil> Sender: news@cirrusl.UUCP Organization: Cirrus Logic Inc. Lines: 23