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From: oleg@gryphon.COM (Oleg Kiselev)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: What flavor of Unix is aix?
Message-ID: <22489@gryphon.COM>
Date: 20 Nov 89 08:56:14 GMT
References: <3016@hydra.Helsinki.FI> <1989Nov8.170953.4375@sun.soe.clarkson.edu> <22308@gryphon.COM> <474@siswat.UUCP>
Reply-To: oleg@gryphon.COM (Oleg Kiselev)
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In article <474@siswat.UUCP> buck@siswat.UUCP (A. Lester Buck) writes:
>Anyone can get a crude idea of the original source for kernel modules on AIX
>PS/2 by running the what command on the kernel libraries in /usr/sys/386.
>A quick look at those modules that have embedded sccs strings shows
>that about half are labeled IBM and half are labeled LCC.

That's very misleading.  All of AIX code (kernel, utilities and applications)
are copyrighted by IBM and the executables are supposed to have IBM copyright
imbeded in them, unless some other entity holds explicit copyright and either
licenses software to IBM (Locus' PCI and MERGE code) or releases the software
in some other way (University of California, Berkeley, owns copyright on most
of the 4.3BSD TCP/IP code and 4.3 utilities).  A lot of AIX PS/2 code carries
LCC SCCS id strings, a lot of code does not -- regardless of whether the code
was developed at LCC or at IBM.
-- 
			"No regrets, no apologies"   Ronald Reagan

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