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.
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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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