🚀 go-pugleaf

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>> Date:    Sat, 08 Aug 92 19:13:06 PDT
>> To:      epoch@edu.uiuc.cs
>> 
>> From:    marca@edu.uiuc.ncsa (Marc Andreessen)
>> Subject: useless files in Epoch distribution...
>> 
>> Return-Path: <epoch-m@edu.uiuc.cs>
>> 
>> I'm considering axing a bunch of files from the Epoch distribution.
>> These files would include everything VMS-specific (since apparently
>> Epoch won't compile under VMS without extensive modifications anyway)
>> as well as files from 'etc' as follows:
>> 
>>   3B-MAXMEM 2K
>>   AIX.DUMP 11K
>>   APPLE 3K
>>   BABYL 5K
>>   CCADIFF 7K
>>   COOKIES 5K
>>   DIFF 30K
>>   GNU.JOKES 1K
>>   GOSDIFF 24K
>>   LEDIT 3K
>>   NICKLES.WORTH 13K
>>   ONEWS 51K
>>   OONEWS 48K
>>   SUN-SUPPORT 9K
>>   SUN-BUG 2K
>>   XDOC 18K
>>   Xkeymap.txt 10K
>>   calibacy.1 0K
>>   echo.msg 3K
>>   emacs.icon 2K
>>   emacs.names 7K
>>   emacstool.1 5K
>>   emacstool.c 14K
>>   ledit.l 5K
>>   leditcfns.c 1K
>>   qsort.c 6K
>>   sex.6 2K
>>   termcap.dat 58K
>>   termcap.ucb 130K
>>   ulimit.hack 1K
>>   xmouse.doc 1K
>> 
>> (Those files were chosen because they're out of date, not useful, or
>> both.)
>> 
>> Chopping these files from the distribution would decrease its size by
>> about 500K, which would be nice.
>> 
>> If anyone has objections to this (because of a sentimental attachment
>> to Richard Stallman's cookie recipe, or something), please let me
>> know...
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Marc
>> 
>> --
>> Marc Andreessen
>> Epoch Development Team
>> University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
>> marca@ncsa.uiuc.edu
>> 


Fine by me. But doesn't your "editing" of the distribution violate the
GNU General Licence?

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