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This is the C indenter, it originally came from the University of Illinois
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via some distribution tape for PDP-11 Unix. It has subsequently been
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hacked upon by James Gosling @ CMU. It isn't very pretty, and really needs
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to be completely redone, but it is probably the nicest C pretty printer
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around.
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Further additions to provide "Kernel Normal Form" were contributed
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by the folks at Sun Microsystems.
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> From mnetor!yunexus!oz@uunet.UU.NET Wed Mar 9 15:30:55 1988
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> Date: Tue, 8 Mar 88 18:36:25 EST
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> From: yunexus!oz@uunet.UU.NET (Ozan Yigit)
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> To: bostic@okeeffe.berkeley.edu
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> Cc: ccvaxa!willcox@uunet.UU.NET, jag@sun.com, rsalz@uunet.UU.NET
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> In-Reply-To: Keith Bostic's message of Tue, 16 Feb 88 16:09:06 PST
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> Subject: Re: Indent...
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Thank you for your response about indent. I was wrong in my original
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observation (or mis-observation :-). UCB did keep the Illinois
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copyright intact.
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The issue still is whether we can distribute indent, and if we can, which
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version. David Willcox (the author) states that:
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| Several people have asked me on what basis I claim that indent is in
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| the public domain. I knew I would be sorry I made that posting.
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| Some history. Way back in 1976, the project I worked on at the
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| University of Illinois Center for Advanced Computation had a huge
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| battle about how to format C code. After about a week of fighting, I
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| got disgusted and wrote a program, which I called indent, to reformat C
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| code. It had a bunch of different options that would let you format
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| the output the way you liked. In particular, all of the different
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| formats being championed were supported.
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| It was my first big C program. It was ugly. It wasn't designed, it
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| just sort of grew. But it pretty much worked, and it stopped most of
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| the fighting.
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| As a matter of form, I included a University of Illinois Copyright
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| notice. However, my understanding was that, since the work was done
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| on an ARPA contract, it was in the public domain.
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| Time passed. Some years later, indent showed up on one of the early
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| emacs distributions.
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| Later still, someone from UC Berlekey called the UofI and asked if
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| indent was in the public domain. They wanted to include it in their
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| UNIX distributions, along with the emacs stuff. I was no longer at the
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| UofI, but Rob Kolstad, who was, asked me about it. I told him I didn't
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| care if they used it, and since then it has been on the BSD distributions.
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| Somewhere along the way, several other unnamed people have had their
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| hands in it. It was converted to understand version 7 C. (The
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| original was version 6.) It was converted from its original filter
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| interface to its current "blow away the user's file" interface.
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| The $HOME/.indent.pro file parsing was added. Some more formatting
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| options were added.
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| The source I have right now has two copyright notices. One is the
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| original from the UofI. One is from Berkeley.
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| I am not a lawyer, and I certainly do not understand copyright law. As
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| far as I am concerned, the bulk of this program, everything covered by
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| the UofI copyright, is in the public domain, and worth every penny.
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| Berkeley's copyright probably should only cover their changes, and I
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| don't know their feelings about sending it out.
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In any case, there appears to be noone at UofI to clarify/and change
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that copyright, but I am confident (based on the statements of its
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author) that the code, as it stands with its copyright, is
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distributable, and will not cause any legal problems.
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Hence, the issue reduces to *which* one to distribute through
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comp.sources.unix. I would suggest that with the permission of you
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folks (given that you have parts copyrighted), we distribute the 4.3
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version of indent, which appears to be the most up-to-date version. I
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happen to have just about every known version of indent, including the
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very original submission from the author to a unix tape, later the
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G-Emacs version, any 4.n version, sun version and the Unipress
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version. I still think we should not have to "go-back-in-time" and
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re-do all the work you people have done.
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I hope to hear from you as to what you think about this. You may of
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course send 4.3 version to the moderator directly, or you can let me
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know of your permission, and I will send the sources, or you can let
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me know that 4.3 version is off-limits, in which case we would probably
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have to revert to an older version. One way or another, I hope to get
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a version of indent to comp.sources.unix.
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regards.. oz
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cc: ccvaxa!willcox
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sun.com!jar
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uunet!rsalz
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