On Sun, Nov 08, 2020 at 07:06:52PM -0500, Ryan Armstrong wrote:
>...
> I have been researching old terminal and X games recently, and realized
> that much of the code from 'xmille' orignated from the terminal game
> 'mille', which is part of bsdgames.
> 
> Specifically, the following files are notably similar between the two
> games:
> comp.c
> end.c
> extern.c
> init.c
> mille.c & mille.h
> misc.c
> move.c
> types.h
> varpush.c
> 
> Many of these even contain telltale BSD version/date comments, even a
> few not listed above that are common but extensively re-written.
> However, all of the original source files contain the 3-term BSD
> license, as follows:
>...
> This has been stripped out of all code in the xmille distribution.
> Also, none of the included materials give credit to the original author,
> Ken Arnold.
> 
> I'm not sure what the best solution is, exactly. Extensively patch the
> source until it complies with the BSD license again?
> 
> Presumably, the copyright file needs to change at the very least.
>...

Keith, do you remember the copyright history of this code?

Thanks
Adrian

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