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 -- Michael Bramer - a Debian Certified Linux Developer http://www.debian.org PGP: finger grisu@master.debian.org -- Linux Sysadmin -- Use Debian Linux "The Box said 'Windows NT or better', so I installed Debian Linux"
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