Are any parts of UNIX in public domain?

Eric Black eric at chronon.UUCP
Fri May 2 04:26:39 AEST 1986


In article <512 at gould9.UUCP> joel at gould9.UUCP (Joel West) writes:
>I hereby attest that I have not looked at any copyrighted or
>license-restricted source code, and would like to place the
>following in the public domain: :-)
>
>#!/bin/sh
># Shar script
>cat >true <<//EOF
>exit 0
>//EOF
>chmod 755 true
>cat >false <<//EOF
>exit 1
>//EOF
>chmod 755 false
>-- 

A clear case of independent creation!  An idea whose time has come!
(Of course, the question can be asked, "What other possible reasonable
way could there be to do it?").

-- 
Eric Black   "Garbage In, Gospel Out"
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