22 Sep
2022
22 Sep
'22
4:44 a.m.
On Sep 21, 2022, at 15:18, Steve Nickolas
<usotsuki(a)buric.co> wrote:
On Wed, 21 Sep 2022, Dan Cross wrote:
And then when I wrote it for my own project:
true -
#!/bin/sh
# Does something this small need a license? - SVN
exit 0
false -
#!/bin/sh
# Does something this small need a license? - SVN
exit 1
-uso.
I’ve thought of this example many times when the 9fans minimalists talk about empty-file
`true` impls.
Which of course would lead to the 3.8k reported issues of
https://github.com/kelseyhightower/nocode
--
~j
On Wed,
Sep 21, 2022 at 5:50 PM Phil Budne <phil(a)ultimate.com> wrote:
Not to excuse the failure of the BSD team to properly attribute source
origin by adding only their copyright notice, but didn't AT&T try
unfair turnabout by not properly attributing the origins of their
TCP/IP code?
One of my favorite copyright notices was for /bin/true in System V.
An empty file got turned into 7 lines of comments holding copyright
boilerplate and an `#ident` line with an SCCS version number:
progress!
- Dan C.