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From: allbery@nc386.uucp (Brandon S. Allbery)
Newsgroups: alt.sources
Subject: Re: mailx
Message-ID: <1989Aug11.222359.740@nc386.uucp>
Date: 11 Aug 89 22:23:59 GMT
References: <6703@dayton.UUCP> <6707@dayton.UUCP>
Reply-To: allbery@nc386.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery)
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As quoted from <6707@dayton.UUCP> by jad@dayton.UUCP (J. Deters):
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| In article <6703@dayton.UUCP> joe@dayton.UUCP (Joseph P. Larson) writes:
| n>I was given a copy of mailx by someone who said they got it from someone
| e>who said it was public domain.  The only Copyright notice I found in the
| w>entire distribution was on a support program called "xstr" -- "Copyright
| s>1979 the Regents of the University of California, Berkeley".  No mention
|  >at all if it can legally be redistributed.
| 
| It's always* ok to post diff's to a source.  All you have to do is
| assume that the receipient is patching the same level of source you
| are sending him diffs for.  :)
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The only problem here, assuming the source is for /usr/ucb/Mail and not AT&T's
mailx, is the missing copyright notices.  Berkeley Mail has been certified
"AT&T-free" and is available in a number of places, notably UUNET.

++Brandon
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