Thus spake Christos Zoulas
> I spoke to Ian before he passed over the maintainance of file(1) to me.
> I vaguely remember that he gave me permission to redistribute it so that
> it could be distributed with 4.4BSD and Lite under a standard berkeley
> copyright, but I am not sure. Does anyone know how to reach him so I
> can verify that?

I have emailed this message to him.

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