Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!auspex!guy
From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.4bsd
Subject: Re: Bugs in the BSD sources ??
Keywords: bsd source redistribution
Message-ID: <2525@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 1 Oct 89 00:17:42 GMT
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Reply-To: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
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>Sometimes it *is* identical to the unpublished proprietary source.
>For instance, the freely redistributable version (5.3 (Berkeley) 6/29/88)
>of mkstr.c from the 4.3BSD-Tahoe release of Berkeley UNIX (which is what
>UUNET post in their archives) is exactly the same as the proprietary version
>(5.1 (Berkeley) 5/31/85) of mkstr.c, with the expection of the SCCS info and
>redistribution rights.  Just an observation...

...and one based on the assumption that the old code actually *was*
proprietary; in many cases, the only reason it didn't have the
redistribution stuff is either that:

	1) they hadn't actually sat down and checked that there wasn't
	   any AT&T code

or

	2) they hadn't invented the redistribution rights comment yet.