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From: heiby@mcdchg.UUCP
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Subject: Re: UUCP source code is protected.  End of discussion.
Message-ID: <271@mcdchg.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 24-Mar-87 10:43:49 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar 24 10:43:49 1987
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In article <15442@sun.uucp> guy@sun.UUCP (Guy Harris) writes:
>There are few copyright notices in the source to UNIX as distributed
>by AT&T prior to S5R3.  In S5R3, most, if not all, source - including
>UUCP source - has a copyright notice attached to it:

To give some idea of how far they've gone, I'm going to take a real
chance here, and post the *ENTIRE* source to SVR3 /bin/true.  I don't
have a source license at this site.  The /bin/true source is distributed
to binary licensees.  Here it is:
----- cut here -----
#	Copyright (c) 1984 AT&T
#	  All Rights Reserved

#	THIS IS UNPUBLISHED PROPRIETARY SOURCE CODE OF AT&T
#	The copyright notice above does not evidence any
#	actual or intended publication of such source code.

#ident	"@(#)true:true.sh	1.4"
----- cut here -----
In case you haven't already noticed, there isn't really any source code
in there!  (At least /bin/false has an executable line!)  Looks like AT&T
is copyrighting blank lines.  Let's be real careful about the blank lines
we use in our code.  :-)   (Defend us from over-zealous lawyers!)
-- 
Ron Heiby, heiby@mcdchg.UUCP	Moderator: mod.newprod & mod.os.unix
Motorola Microcomputer Division (MCD), Schaumburg, IL
"There are only two of them that I think are idiots." Brian Reid