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   Richard Kettlewell to ldo@nz.invalid   
   Re: =?utf-8?B?4oCcUm9jay1Tb2xpZOKAnQ==?=   
   06 Jan 26 09:42:27   
   
   From: invalid@invalid.invalid   
      
   Lawrence D’Oliveiro  writes:   
   > He also repeats the old myth   
   >   
   >     Because FreeBSD is a descendant of the original AT&T UNIX code,   
   >     you can bet it inherited the stability of its predecessor.   
   >   
   > None of the BSDs have *any* AT&T Unix code in them. AT&T filed an   
   > actual lawsuit to see to that.   
      
   Counterexample:   
   https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/blob/main/contrib/one-true-awk/awk.h   
      
   The copyright notice says 'Lucent' but that's an AT&T spinoff,   
   presumably the one that ended up owning that version of awk when they   
   did the split.   
      
   It’s not a recent addition, either. The version in 4.4BSDLite2,   
   https://github.com/sergev/4.4BSD-Lite2/blob/master/usr/src/contr   
   b/awk.research/awk.h,   
   has an explicit AT&T copyright.   
      
   Compare   
   with https://github.com/calmsacibis995/svr4-src/blob/main/cmd/awk/awk.h,   
   the same file in SVR4, and the relationship is obvious.   
      
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