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From: djm@eng.umd.edu (David J. MacKenzie)
To: friedman@gnu.ai.mit.edu
Subject: Re: yes(1)
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 91 10:45:58 -0400

>    I can't believe GNU ``yes'' falls under the GPL!  :-) :-)

That was a borderline case, all right . . . .
Until a couple of days ago, in fact the only comment in yes.c was

/* Truly useful program. Mly 850319 */






From: mib@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Michael I Bushnell)
To: qotd@ghoti.LCS.MIT.EDU
Subject: GNU yes
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 91 17:47:04 -0400


GNU yes has 17 lines of copyright legend and 16 lines of source.
Hmmm.  Even better, it took two people to write it:

/* Richard Mlynarik and David MacKenzie */

is prominently displayed.  I guess they're really proud of their
accomplishment.

	-mib

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