It would appear that it is only the base skeleton of the driver for which
the copyright is being claimed by the US Govt thru NSA:

 *  Base Driver Skeleton:
 *      Written 1993-94 by Donald Becker.
 *
 *      Copyright 1993 United States Government as represented by the
 *      Director, National Security Agency.
 *
 * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
 * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
 * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
 * (at your option) any later version.

-- 
Howard.
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On Sat, 23 Dec 2000, Ken Yap wrote:

> I think you are referring to this copyright statement, in e.g. wd.c:
>
>         Copyright 1993 United States Government as represented by the
>         Director, National Security Agency.
>
> I guessing that's a formal statement required in all source released by
> NASA.  Donald Becker worked at NASA, not NSA.
>
>
>



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