Re: Emacs and RCS (was Re: GUI front-end for RCS)

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From: David A. Cuthbert
Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 00:00

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I don't normally get into the GPL discussions, but I think I should
clarify what I said earlier before people start wondering about this
company.

I originally said:
> ComponentSoftware Ltd. makes a port for Win95/NT of the GNU
> RCS; look at http://www.componentsoftware.com/csrcs/ .
> Unfortunately, it isn't free ($49 single-user, $199 for five
> users).

and incorrectly used the word "port."  By port, I meant that they have
a version that is compatible with and based on GNU RCS, not that they
necessarily took the source code and derived from it.

Their web page describes it as "based on the widely used GNU RCS," not
a port of it.

Hope that this clarifies some misconceptions.
-- 
David A. Cuthbert (henry.ece.cmu.edu!dacut)
Graduate Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Data Storage Systems Center, Carnegie Mellon University

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From: dacut@henry.ece.cmu.edu (David A. Cuthbert)
Subject: Re: Emacs and RCS (was Re: GUI front-end for RCS)
Date: 1997/05/13
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