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Article #142Re: useless files in Epoch distribution...
From: Alan M. Carroll
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1992 21:54
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1992 21:54
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In article <9208101739.AA12896@a.cs.uiuc.edu>, G.Joly@cs.ucl.ac.uk (Gordon Joly) writes: > [The entire contents of Mark's original post] > Fine by me. But doesn't your "editing" of the distribution violate the > GNU General Licence? Not at all. Since those files are, in fact, useless and not part of any binary generated by or with Epoch, they are not part of the "source" covered in the General License. Distributions without them will still contain the complete Epoch source. Omitting them is no more breaking the license than our failure to included code we have deleted from the .c files. -- Alan M. Carroll "Weren't there yams involved, too?" - J. Ockerbloom Epoch Development Team Urbana Il. "I hate shopping with the reality-impaired" - Susan
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Newsgroups: gnu.epoch.misc Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!wupost!uwm.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!m.cs.uiuc.edu!uiucdcs!carroll From: carroll@cs.uiuc.edu (Alan M. Carroll) Subject: Re: useless files in Epoch distribution... Message-ID: <1992Aug10.215449.11324@m.cs.uiuc.edu> Sender: news@m.cs.uiuc.edu (News Database (admin-Mike Schwager)) Organization: Technophiles Inc. - Engineers with Attitude References: <9208090213.AA14552@wintermute.ncsa.uiuc.edu> <9208101739.AA12896@a.cs.uiuc.edu> Distribution: gnu Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1992 21:54:49 GMT Lines: 16