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From: ken@eies2.njit.edu (Kenneth  Ng)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: AT&T vs. BSDI --: 4.3BSD-NET2 distribution requires AT&T license!!!
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Date: 15 Aug 92 17:41:33 GMT
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In article <l8hhhkINN695@appserv.Eng.Sun.COM: lm@slovax.Eng.Sun.COM (Larry McVoy) writes:
:I don't mind the copyrights as long as they don't get in my face.  How about
:one of these:
:	1) #include <sys/copyright.h>
:	2) Put the @%$! copyright at the *bottom* of the file instead
:	   of the top.  Surely the lawyers can't tell the difference,
:	   right?

Back on an old IBM VM machine I modified my PROFILE XEDIT script (the
rough equivalent of .exrc) to search out similar notices and then tell
the editor to 'hide' those lines so I did not have to see them.  Its
always handy to have a 'real editor' :-).

-- 
Kenneth Ng
AT&T vs BSDI lawsuit: the dark side of the source