From: invalid@invalid.invalid   
      
   arnold@freefriends.org (Aharon Robbins) writes:   
   > Richard Kettlewell wrote:   
   >>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/con   
   rib/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.   
   >   
   > The one true awk has its own license. Yes, it was from Unix awk, but   
   > there's no AT&T kernel code in FreeBSD.   
      
   How about   
   https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/blob/main/sys/contrib/ope   
   zfs/module/os/freebsd/spl/spl_uio.c#L27   
   then?   
      
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