On Mon, Sep 03, 2018 at 09:13:13AM -0500, Eric Blake wrote: ... > Note that the most recent version of 'install-sh' as installed by Automake > states: > # Copyright (C) 1994 X Consortium
looking at my collection of untarred X sources, there's an issue with that: The comment just before reads something like # This originates from X11R5 (mit/util/scripts/install.sh), which was # later released in X11R6 (xc/config/util/install.sh) with the # following copyright and license. however - the first mention of copyright for any version of that file in X sources was in 2003 (in xterm's sources), citing 1991. xterm has the 1994 date from autoconf (i.e.,. a secondhand report). X's sources don't have that file... The X11R5 file has this comment (no copyright notice): # # install - install a program, script, or datafile # # $XConsortium: install.sh,v 1.2 89/12/18 14:47:22 jim Exp $ # # This script is compatible with the BSD install script, but was written # from scratch. # There's an additional twist: Thomas Roell made a script mit/server/ddx/x386/etc/install.sh derived from the X11R5 mit/util/scripts/install.sh, adding a copyright notice: # Copyright 1990,91 by Thomas Roell, Dinkelscherben, Germany. With all that, the available information shows that someone "fixed" things in the early 2000s by adding a copyright date to address the derived work. Perhaps autoconf's source repo has additional information. As is, the copyright was apparently not applied by the owner of the file. -- Thomas E. Dickey <dic...@invisible-island.net> https://invisible-island.net ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net
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