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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!network.ucsd.edu!ucsd.edu!brian From: brian@ucsd.edu (Brian Kantor) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: AT&T vs. BSDI --> 4.3BSD-NET2 distribution requires AT&T license!!! Date: 10 Aug 1992 21:34:01 GMT Organization: The Avant-Garde of the Now, Ltd. Lines: 21 Message-ID: <166nc9INNfpi@network.ucsd.edu> References: <QeTP0wq00iUyM68Gwo@andrew.cmu.edu> <1992Aug8.160024.3222@sceard.Sceard.COM> <166cciINNr2o@agate.berkeley.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: ucsd.edu mrm@sceard.COM (M.R.Murphy) writes: >How I love it when the copyright blather takes more space in a source >distribution than the code itself. bostic@toe.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Keith Bostic) writes: >It can't be included once and fulfill its purpose, the lawyers we've >consulted are consistent on that one. Ah, but does it have to be at the beginning? I've had very pleasing results with a script that ran down the entire source directory and moved the first comment found in each file to the back end of the file. That way when I'm working on the source, I don't have that pile of lawyer droppings in my face. In fact, most of the time I don't see it at all. One wonders if these same lawyers believe that a novel needs a copyright notice on every page, or whether once per chapter would keep them happy. You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him read the fine print. - Brian