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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!mips!mips!cs.uoregon.edu!sisters.cs.uoregon.edu!mike From: mike@sisters.cs.uoregon.edu (Michael John Haertel) Subject: Re: USL's claims to "intellectual property" Message-ID: <1992Aug14.020039.12126@cs.uoregon.edu> Sender: news@cs.uoregon.edu (Netnews Owner) Organization: /local/lib/rn/organization References: <1992Aug13.191858.18970@telematics.com> <1992Aug13.223701.27806@henson.cc.wwu.edu> Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 02:00:39 GMT Lines: 14 In article <1992Aug13.223701.27806@henson.cc.wwu.edu> phil@henson.cc.wwu.edu (Phil Nelson) writes: >ted@telematics.com (Ted Goldblatt) writes: >>2. Net2 contains code directly lifted from (some rev of) >> Un*x, or code that had only been cosmetically altered >> from actual USL code. > >Here is an exercise for people on this point. Go to your net2 >source code and look at the code for cpio. (That is usr.bin/cpio/cpio.c). I believe AT&T explicitly placed their implementation of cpio in the public domain some years back, in the hopes of getting people to use cpio format. They also did the same thing with their implementation of getopt(3).