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Article #110Re: Bugs in the BSD sources ??
From: Guy Harris
Date: Sun, 01 Oct 1989 00:17
Date: Sun, 01 Oct 1989 00:17
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>Sometimes it *is* identical to the unpublished proprietary source. >For instance, the freely redistributable version (5.3 (Berkeley) 6/29/88) >of mkstr.c from the 4.3BSD-Tahoe release of Berkeley UNIX (which is what >UUNET post in their archives) is exactly the same as the proprietary version >(5.1 (Berkeley) 5/31/85) of mkstr.c, with the expection of the SCCS info and >redistribution rights. Just an observation... ...and one based on the assumption that the old code actually *was* proprietary; in many cases, the only reason it didn't have the redistribution stuff is either that: 1) they hadn't actually sat down and checked that there wasn't any AT&T code or 2) they hadn't invented the redistribution rights comment yet.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!auspex!guy From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) Newsgroups: comp.bugs.4bsd Subject: Re: Bugs in the BSD sources ?? Keywords: bsd source redistribution Message-ID: <2525@auspex.auspex.com> Date: 1 Oct 89 00:17:42 GMT References: <1802@cooper.cooper.EDU> <13879@well.UUCP> <4281@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> <4977@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> Reply-To: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) Distribution: na Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara Lines: 17