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From: vixie@palo-alto.DEC.COM (Paul Vixie)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: dbm(3) legal status
Message-ID: <3046@palo-alto.DEC.COM>
Date: 13 Jun 88 00:24:24 GMT
References: <937@fig.bbn.com>
Reply-To: vixie@dec.com (Paul Vixie)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Western Research Lab
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Disclaimer: I'm not speaking for DEC

# Okay, fact time.

Yeah.

There's a dbm.c and a dbm.h in X Windows Version 11 Release 2.  It's part
of HP's contribution in the server directory.  Since X.V11R2 is freely
distributable, I am assuming that this DBM package was written by HP and
is not AT&T-derived (otherwise HP and MIT could get in trouble for sending
it out to people without AT&T source licenses).  Looking at the code very
briefly and comparing it with my memory of the 4.2bsd DBM source (not NDBM),
it looked totally different.

If this version of DBM is "free", perhaps HP can post it to comp.sources.unix
under separate cover?  They'd be the heroes of the Net.  For a few hours,
anyway.  :-).
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