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From: gdonl@sunrise.ssi1.com (Don Lewis)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: Is AT&T listening?...
Message-ID: <1992Jul28.052700.24049@ssigv.UUCP>
Date: 28 Jul 92 05:27:00 GMT
References: <1992Jul23.200547.22246@cs.rose-hulman.edu> <97@ampr.ab.ca> <1834@adagio.UUCP>
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In article <1834@adagio.UUCP> grog@adagio.UUCP (Greg Lehey) writes:
>The number of lines of code is irrelevant; what's important is the
>copyright notice. Look, for example, at an AT&T version of /etc/fstab.
>Do you have something like:
>
># Copyright (c) 1984, 1986, 1987, 1988 AT&T
># All Rights Reserved
>
># THIS IS UNPUBLISHED PROPRIETARY SOURCE CODE OF AT&T
># No, come to think of it, this is utter bullshit. Apart
># from this copyright notice, everything in this file has
># been created by the local sysop. It contains no source
># code whatsoever.
># The copyright notice above does not evidence any
># actual or intended publication of such source code.
>
>#ident "@(#)fstab.sh 2.3 - 88/05/26"
>
># format: mountdev fs [-[rd]] [fstype]
># This file is used by /etc/mount, /etc/mountall, and /etc/rmountall
>
>
>/dev/dsk/0s3 /usr
>/dev/dsk/1s4 /src
>allegro:/usr /allegro/usr NFS,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,soft
>allegro:/ /allegro/root NFS,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,soft
>allegro:/bsdi /bsdi NFS,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,soft
>allegro:/var /var NFS,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,soft
>allegro:/pub /pub NFS,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,soft
># grave:/ /grave NFS,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,soft
># /dev/dsk/0p1 /c DOS
Maybe you should sue AT&T for claiming copyright to your intellectual
property.
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