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From: Leonard H. Tower Jr.
Date: Sun, 17 May 1992 19:39
Date: Sun, 17 May 1992 19:39
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Date: 16 May 92 03:51:30 GMT From: preece@urbana.mcd.mot.com (Scott E. Preece) This is really awful. It means that a site which kept a continuously up-to-date binary distribution available would have to be able to provide a source copy of every version it ever posted. A three year window could reuqire you to make 50 versions of emacs available and correspondingly awful numbers of versions of gcc or whatever. This is true for binary-ONLY sites. If you have the source code with the binaries you are ok with the GPL. It's not hard to make arrangements with ftp sites with more disk space to add a binary with source distribution. Or get together with other sites with little disk space, with each site distributing a different sub-set of the GNU programs, and a list of what all the sites carry. It takes a little coordination, but is worth it to users, as they have the source code at their finger tips. thanx -len
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