Copyrighting empty files (was Re: Must UNIX be a memory hog?)

[Jef Poskanzer]

In the referenced message, hitz at auspex.auspex.com (Dave Hitz) wrote:
}In article <10321 at smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn at brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) writes:
}>In article <8335 at june.cs.washington.edu> ka at june.cs.washington.edu (Kenneth Almquist) writes:
}>>It's about time that someone pointed out that the System V "true" program
}>>is not the empty file.
}>It was before AT&T went around adding bogus Copyright notices to everything.
}Yes, but then there wasn't a copyright notice in it.

Look guys, it doesn't have to make sense.  It's the LAW.
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Jef

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