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Subject: Copyright infringement in FreeBSD/alpha
Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, core@FreeBSD.ORG, cgd@netbsd.org,
        ross@netbsd.org, core@netbsd.org
Reply-To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 1998 12:05:13 -0700
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[ Chris/Ross - I CC'd you so that are aware of it, and so that you can
  watch out for it in the future... Also, Chris... who's the right
  person at CMU to notify about this? ]

So, I decided to take a look at the FreeBSD/alpha code that got checked
in today.

Nice to see that the CMU copyright was left out of locore.s, even though
e.g. the following pieces were lifted basically verbatim from the NetBSD/alpha
locore.s:

	- the SWITCH_CONTEXT macro

	- the kernel startup (locorestart)

	- the signal trampoline

	- the fpstate code

Gee, pretty much the whole file!  Amazing that Doug wrote that from scratch!
Even the comments are the same!  Uncanny!

Also, looking at machdep.c:

	- alpha_dsr_sysname() [Where did you get your documentation
	  on the DSR?  Amazing that it looks _just like_ the code
	  that I wrote for NetBSD/alpha...]

	- alpha_variation_name()

	- alpha_unknown_sysname()

	- identifycpu()

	- alpha_init() [a few tweaks here, but not many...]

	- setregs() [again, only a few tweaks here]

	- alpha_pa_access()

This file is missing _BOTH_ the CMU and NetBSD Foundation, Inc. copyright
notices.

And vm_machdep.c:

	- cpu_fork()

This file is missing the CMU copyright notice.

*smirk*  I wonder how many other copyright infringements are contained
within "FreeBSD's" alpha port...

Jason R. Thorpe                                       thorpej@nas.nasa.gov
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