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From: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: bin/98911: getopt(1): getopt.c license issue
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The following reply was made to PR bin/98911; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk>
To: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org, jmc@kerhand.co.uk
Cc:  
Subject: Re: bin/98911: getopt(1): getopt.c license issue
Date: Sun, 04 May 2008 22:50:05 +0100

 Since this issue was raised in June 2006 NetBSD added a header at the 
 top of getopt.c:
 
 /*
   * This material, written by Henry Spencer, was released by him
   * into the public domain and is thus not subject to any copyright.
   */
 
 The FreeBSD man page for getopt(1) does record Henry as the author, but 
 the README in src/usr.bin/getopt is possibly misleading.  The original 
 message can be seen through Google Groups at 
 http://groups.google.com/group/mod.std.unix/msg/4ebaa418597b4ff0 and it 
 appears clear that Ian Darwin isn't claiming he wrote getopt but that 
 he'd found it and was posting a copy of it for others to see.  In 
 particular, note that the History section remained intact and attributed 
 Henry as the original author.
 
 -- 
 Bruce