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Date:      Tue, 16 Jan 1996 02:56:02 -0800 (PST)
From:      obrien@cs.ucdavis.edu (David E. O'Brien)
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD Hacker's list)
Subject:   Re: FBSD 2.1
Message-ID:  <9601161056.AA10894@toadflax.cs.ucdavis.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199601160309.UAA02934@rocky.sri.MT.net> from "Nate Williams" at Jan 15, 96 08:09:50 pm

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> 
> Other than that I think we're pretty safe.  We're *much* safer with
> using Zip code than shipping the sources to BSD compress around.
> 

Why is that?  What is wrong with the sources to BSD compress?
Call me stupid, but aren't they covered by the BSD copyright?  In
/usr/src/usr.bin/compress/doc/NOTES it suggests that /usr/bin/compress
should be safe as far as this goes.  Have I misunderstood?

-- David   (obrien@cs.ucdavis.edu)



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