> On Sep 21, 2022, at 15:18, Steve Nickolas wrote: > > On Wed, 21 Sep 2022, Dan Cross wrote: > >>> On Wed, Sep 21, 2022 at 5:50 PM Phil Budne wrote: >>> Not to excuse the failure of the BSD team to properly attribute source >>> origin by adding only their copyright notice, but didn't AT&T try >>> unfair turnabout by not properly attributing the origins of their >>> TCP/IP code? >> >> One of my favorite copyright notices was for /bin/true in System V. >> An empty file got turned into 7 lines of comments holding copyright >> boilerplate and an `#ident` line with an SCCS version number: >> progress! >> >> - Dan C. >> > > And then when I wrote it for my own project: > > true - > > #!/bin/sh > # Does something this small need a license? - SVN > exit 0 > > false - > > #!/bin/sh > # Does something this small need a license? - SVN > exit 1 > > -uso. I’ve thought of this example many times when the 9fans minimalists talk about empty-file `true` impls. Which of course would lead to the 3.8k reported issues of https://github.com/kelseyhightower/nocode -- ~j