mailx
J. Deters
jad at dayton.UUCP
Thu Aug 10 12:45:02 AEST 1989
In article <6703 at dayton.UUCP> joe at dayton.UUCP (Joseph P. Larson) writes:
>
i>
n>I was given a copy of mailx by someone who said they got it from someone
e>who said it was public domain. The only Copyright notice I found in the
w>entire distribution was on a support program called "xstr" -- "Copyright
s>1979 the Regents of the University of California, Berkeley". No mention
>at all if it can legally be redistributed.
f>
i>Can someone tell me if it's okay to redistribute this? I've made some
l>changes some people may like. I figure I'm covered, legally, but if it
k>isn't supposed to be PD (ie: someone stripped the rest of the copyright
>notices before I got it), I don't want to step on toes.
>
>-Joe
It's always* ok to post diff's to a source. All you have to do is
assume that the receipient is patching the same level of source you
are sending him diffs for. :)
Technically, of course, your 'diffs' are not allowed to contain the
source lines. They should only contain offsets into the file to
remain perfectly legal.
-j
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