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From: jbs@mit-eddie.MIT.EDU (Jeff Siegal)
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Subject: Re: Are any parts of UNIX in public domain?
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Date: Wed, 30-Apr-86 00:52:42 EDT
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In article <339@brl-smoke.ARPA> gwyn@brl.ARPA writes:
>It's REALLY funny to put a copyright notice on an empty file; does that
>mean that all those empty files you have lying around are illegal copies
>of AT&T's /bin/true with the copyright notice removed?

Or better yet, does it mean that all code which is a superset of that
empty file is an extended version of AT&T's code?

Jeff Siegal