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Date:      Mon, 08 Apr 2002 04:41:12 -0700
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
To:        Jamie Bowden <ragnar@sysabend.org>
Cc:        freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Abuses of the BSD license?
Message-ID:  <3CB181D8.AD797C8A@mindspring.com>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.10204080430170.33374-100000@moo.sysabend.org>

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Jamie Bowden wrote:
> :USL recognized this in their license.  If you have access to a
> :SVR4 derived machine that was shipped after the USL vs. UCB
> :settlement, look at the license on the header files.

[ ... ]

> /*
> *
> * Copyright 1992-1997 Silicon Graphics, Inc.
> * All Rights Reserved.
> *
> * This is UNPUBLISHED PROPRIETARY SOURCE CODE of Silicon Graphics, Inc.;
> * the contents of this file may not be disclosed to third parties, copied
> or
> * duplicated in any form, in whole or in part, without the prior written
> * permission of Silicon Graphics, Inc.
> *
> * RESTRICTED RIGHTS LEGEND:
> * Use, duplication or disclosure by the Government is subject to
> restrictions
> * as set forth in subdivision (c)(1)(ii) of the Rights in Technical Data
> * and Computer Software clause at DFARS 252.227-7013, and/or in similar or
> * successor clauses in the FAR, DOD or NASA FAR Supplement. Unpublished -
> * rights reserved under the Copyright Laws of the United States.
> */
> /*      Copyright (c) 1988 AT&T */
> /*        All Rights Reserved   */
> 
> /*      THIS IS UNPUBLISHED PROPRIETARY SOURCE CODE OF AT&T     */
> /*      The copyright notice above does not evidence any        */
> /*      actual or intended publication of such source code.     */
> 
> What are we supposed to see?

If the header was derived from BSD code, you are supposed to
see compliance with the BSD license, in the form of its inclusion
*after* the USL license.

That you have an AT&T license indicates that this code was
published after the SVR4.0.1, but before the UCB/USL settlement,
which included the propert attribution of UCB in the copyright
notices in source files, including system header files.

8-).

-- Terry

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