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Re: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing

From: Constantine A. Murenin (murenincgmail.com)
Date: Sat Sep 01 2007 - 15:14:43 CDT


On 01/09/07, Siju George <sgeorge.mlgmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/1/07, Marco Peereboom <slashpeereboom.us> wrote:
> >
> > Try to run strings on windows command line utilities. You'll see that
> > they preserved the copyrights as required.
> >
>
> Could somebody please explain about "Running Strings"?

tvc: {2476} strings `where ftp` | grep -A1 -i copyright
(#) Copyright (c) 1985, 1989, 1993, 1994
        The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
tvc: {2477}

That's on OpenBSD. On Windows, you can presumably get strings(1) as a
part of the Cygwin package, or try out Windows Services for UNIX.

http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20030927090008

C.