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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
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Subject: 4.3 Copyright
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Date: Mon, 28-Jul-86 18:44:03 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul 28 18:44:03 1986
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>  ... for 4.3 we went
> through a lot to get everything with a consistent copyright notice on
> it, all the way down to the man pages.

I trust you took care *not* to put the copyright notice on things you
didn't write, like the old troff->Versatec scan conversion (which was
from U of Toronto, although both the attribution and the licensing
restrictions got lost along the road to Berkeley).  I haven't seen
a 4.3 yet, but I'd be willing to bet that the Regents of the
University of California are claiming credit for and ownership of at
least a few things they didn't write.  Some of us think this practice
is pretty sleazy, not to mention legally dubious.

(For the record, the Berkeleyite who imported the Versatec-troff stuff
wasn't aware of its origin -- it came via a third party who was evidently
sloppy about attribution and licensing restrictions -- so there wasn't
any deliberately shady behavior involved in its acquisition.  There has
never been any question, however, that it was not written at UCB and
UCB has no right to claim copyright on it.)
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