Hello,
Attached patch makes some changes to the history and authors section of
expr(1) as follows:

1) State the first rewrite was a public domain version
2) The majority of the rewrite work was for NetBSD 1.0 [1]
3) It was largely rewritten by John T. Conklin in 1993 [1]


Sevan
[1]
http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/bin/expr/expr.y?rev=1.11&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup&only_with_tag=MAIN
Index: bin/expr/expr.1
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/src/bin/expr/expr.1,v
retrieving revision 1.23
diff -u -p -u -r1.23 expr.1
--- bin/expr/expr.1     16 Jan 2015 15:30:10 -0000      1.23
+++ bin/expr/expr.1     24 Aug 2016 00:29:29 -0000
@@ -142,15 +142,15 @@ The
 utility first appeared in the Programmer's Workbench (PWB/UNIX)
 and has supported regular expressions since
 .At v7 .
-It was rewritten from scratch for
+A public domain version was rewritten from scratch for
 .Bx 386 0.1
-and again for
-.Nx 1.1 .
+and largely again for
+.Nx 1.0 .
 .Sh AUTHORS
 .An -nosplit
-The first free version was written by
+The public domain version was written by
 .An Pace Willisson
 in 1992.
-This version was written by
+It was largely rewritten by
 .An John T. Conklin
-in 1994.
+in 1993.

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