Are any parts of UNIX in public domain?

Snoopy seifert at hammer.UUCP
Wed May 7 03:50:42 AEST 1986


In article <393 at mit-trillian.MIT.EDU> henry at ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Henry C. Mensch) writes:
>>An even better approach would be:
>>	static char *copyright="Copyright 1984 AT&T, All Rights Reserved";
>>In the top line of the program, Which would protect the binary as well.
>
>	You are correct here -- a copyright notice must reside in
>memory while the program is executing.  

Nooooo Problem!  Just wait for the page containing the copyright to
get paged out.  Demand paged vm is wonderful, ain't it?

Disclaimer: JUST KIDDING!

(perhaps this is a conspiracy by the companies that make RAM chips
and disks, and tapes, and...)

Snoopy
tektronix!tekecs!doghouse.TEK!snoopy



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