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License text missing / incomplete #108

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@iskaleade

Hello,

I noticed that there is a file https://github.com/mirror/busybox/blob/master/coreutils/tr.c which has a strange file header:

--
Copyright (c) 1987,1997, Prentice Hall All rights reserved.

The name of Prentice Hall may not be used to endorse or promote
products derived from this software without specific prior
written permission.

Copyright (c) Michiel Huisjes

This version of tr is adapted from Minix tr and was modified
by Erik Andersen [email protected] to be used in busybox.

Licensed under GPLv2 or later, see file LICENSE in this source tree.

--

The bold part is obviously part of a BSD-3-Clause license text, but aside from the fact that it is incomplete it is missing the most essential part - the permissions. I did some digging and it seems that the rest of the license fell victim to some code cleanup: see cd54528. The file had the license text at the bottom of the file, which was deleted and shrinked to what is left now.

IMO this should be fixed in order not to violate the original BSD-3-Clause. Thanks!

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