On Wed, 21 Sep 2022, Dan Cross wrote:

On Wed, Sep 21, 2022 at 5:50 PM Phil Budne <phil@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.

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.