[Info-vax] VLF: The 35th Anniversary Communique from the VMS Liberation Front

glen herrmannsfeldt gah at ugcs.caltech.edu
Sun Oct 28 18:07:49 EDT 2012


Bill Gunshannon <billg999 at cs.uofs.edu> wrote:

(snip)

> One of the facets of the, now infamous, AT&T Unix lawsuit hinged on the
> fact that after incorporating BSD Networking (and some other parts) into
> SYSTEM V AT&T had removed all of the Berkeley Copyrights and inserted
> AT&T Copyrights.  It seems that someone had been told AT&T distributed
> code could have  nothing but AT&T Copyrights so an overzealous editor
> went thru all the source making the appropriate changes.  :-)

I might have called that making the inappropriate changes.

-- glen



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