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From: soley@ontenv.UUCP (Norman S. Soley)
Newsgroups: alt.sources,comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: CRISP: tacky use of my splay tree code.
Message-ID: <440@ontenv.UUCP>
Date: 10 Mar 89 18:32:26 GMT
References: <2706@rtech.rtech.com>
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Organization: Ontario Ministry of the Environment, Toronto
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In article <2706@rtech.rtech.com>, daveb@rtech.rtech.com (Dave Brower) writes:
: I'd tried to encourage the use of splay trees by posting a library in 
: comp.sources.unix last year.  The code in CRISP is obviously derived 
: from my library, but contains not a whit of credit from me or 
: acknowledgement of the source.
: 
: Now, I didn't put in an explicit copyright, ... So it is really galling 
: to see a copyright on this editor that uses my code without permission or
: acknowledgement.
: 
: Phthhhhpt!!! to you Mr Fox.  It is tacky at best to rip code off and
: imply that it is yours.  How much else of CRISP did you steal?

Well, you're in good company Dave, Mr. Fox also seems to be claiming
ownership of Doug Gwyn's directory access library

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