rick@seismo.CSS.GOV (Rick Adams) (06/15/88)
The X.V11R2 files: contrib/andrew/overhead/libmail/dbm.c contrib/andrew/overhead/libmail/dbm.h server/os/hpux/dbm.c server/os/hpux/dbm.h are clearly derived from code covered by ATT license (despite the IBM copyright notice on the Andrew files...). If you don't have an ATT V7 (or greater) source license, you should (legally anyway) remove those files from your system Someday, maybe ATT will realize that it won't hurt them to release these subroutines for public use (like they did with getopt). (They haven't been in an ATT distribution since V32. None of the System X distributions have them) But, for now, they are still covered by license. ---rick
jr+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU (Jonathan Rosenberg) (07/12/88)
[From: rick@seismo.css.gov (Rick Adams), Date: 14 Jun 88 19:05:14 GMT] > The X.V11R2 files: > contrib/andrew/overhead/libmail/dbm.c > contrib/andrew/overhead/libmail/dbm.h > server/os/hpux/dbm.c > server/os/hpux/dbm.h > are clearly derived from code covered by ATT license (despite the IBM > copyright notice on the Andrew files...). We inadvertently released the dbm files in `contrib/andrew/overhead/libmail/'. (The copies in `server/os/hpux' are not ours -- did someone else make the same mistake?) The contents of these files are not needed by any of the released programs. > If you don't have an ATT V7 (or greater) source license, you should > (legally anyway) remove those files from your system Unfortunately, if you just delete those 2 files your next build will run into trouble, because the files are mentioned in Makefile's. We have just released patch files to MIT that will zap the contents of the 2 files. The announcement of these patches will appear soon on the `info-andrew-bugs' mailing list (send requests for subscription to `info-andrew-bugs-request@andrew.cmu.edu). Sorry for the sloppiness. Rick: thanks for noticing & bringing it to our attention. Jonathan Rosenberg Manager, Andrew Message System Group