Are any parts of UNIX in public domain?
Barry Shein
bzs at bu-cs.UUCP
Fri May 2 09:54:30 AEST 1986
>Oh, good grief! Do those lawyer types worry about somebody stealing
>a one-liner like exit 0?
For no good reason I'll take a weak stab at rationalizing this, I presume
the lawyers simply decided not to try to sift through everything and make
a decision on each...copyright it all and damn the torpedos. I hope they
show the same laziness in the future.
-Barry Shein, Boston University
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