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