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Subject: Re: On the multiple definitions of "free"
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In article <1992Feb6.071159@eklektix.com> rcd@raven.eklektix.com (Dick Dunn) writes:
>entropy@wintermute.WPI.EDU (Lawrence C. Foard) writes:
>>There is a very good reason to put things under the GNU public license, take a
>>look at the header files in Ultrix, then download the BSD source from uunet.
>>DEC took something Berkeley gave away for free and then restricted it...
>
>???  I've got BSD source.  It doesn't have any DEC restrictions in it.
>Perhaps that's because Berkeley only gave away a copy.

I think this was meant the other way around.  Take a look in the Ultrix
/usr/include, and you will see most of the header files are BSD header files,
complete with their Regents copyright notices, but with an obnoxious DEC
copyright notice in front.  In many cases this DEC notice is longer than the
original .h file.  I would love to post a copy of one of these files as a
demonstration, but DECs copyright notice prevents me from doing this.  These
kinds of restrictions placed on others work by third parties is exactly what
the General Public License was designed to prevent.

>-- 
>Dick Dunn    rcd@raven.eklektix.com   -or-   raven!rcd    Boulder, Colorado
>	...Simpler is better.

Andy MacDonald
awm@hitl.washington.edu