should all BB code be GPL?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Mon, 10 Jul 2006, Tito wrote:

> On Monday 10 July 2006 13:20, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >
> >   i was just about to write a perl script to go through the source
> > files and replace any GPL-related verbosity with the single-line
> > boilerplate for brevity until i read this in libbb/change_identity.c
> > (sorry about the ugly re-formatting, you can blame pine):
> >
> > ===================================
> > /*
> >  * Copyright 1989 - 1991, Julianne Frances Haugh
> > <jockgrrl at austin.rr.com>
> >  * All rights reserved.
> >  *
>
> snip
>
> > OF
> >  * SUCH DAMAGE.
> >  */
> > =======================================
> >
> >   i don't see any reference to the GPL here.  what should i assume?
> >
> > rday
>
> You will find the same header also in:

... several other files listed ...

but the more general question is, what is the status of the BB source
files that don't mention anything about the GPL?

rday