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Re: Copyright from the lcs-projekt!? [dwarf@polaris.net: Re: First cut at testing and validation]



On Wed, Aug 12, 1998 at 10:23:02PM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Aug 1998, Philip Hands wrote:
> > I'd assumed the code was just an implementation of the standard.
> > 
> None of you even bothered to look at the code that the copyright covers,
> did you?
> 
> The "code" under copyright is four (five? ;-) while loops, that read lines
> from particular files and check to see that the items from the list are
> found on the current system. If any fail, a message posts the line from
> the file and flips the flag. The final message is based on which way the
> flag is flipped. I freely release this algorithm to the world, for
> whatever that is worth ;-)

What is with: ./lcs-libtest 
(BTW: is the pathname in the program right?)

It is also so simple?

And:
Copyright is not a question on the length or complex of the code!

Code like:
   michael@titanic:~ > cat /usr/bin/which
   #!/bin/bash
   unalias -a
   unset -- "$@" &> /dev/null
   enable -n -- "$@" &> /dev/null
   type -p "$@"
must DFSG-free too! 

Or not?

Grisu

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