🚀 go-pugleaf

I am the moderator for comp.binaries.os2.  I have received several
submissions that are OS/2 ports of GNU utilities (such as diff, flex
and bison), with fairly small sets of changes.  I feel that these
would be useful tools to distribute to the net community at large.

Given that the group available for distribution is a *binaries* group,
and that the sources are quite large, I'm not really keen on posting
complete sources in comp.binaries.os2.  Therefore, what I'd like to
do is post a package containing the OS/2 executables, the documentation
and notice files, plus the patches required to change that standard GNU 
source code into the OS/2 version.  I would also include a notice that
GNU sources are available from prep.ai.mit.edu via FTP.

Yes, I could include an offer to provide sources by mail (as noted in the
copyleft), but I have no guarantee that I will (1) be on the net for 3
years, and (2) have access to all the GNU sources for that length of time.

Could someone who *knows* give me an answer?  I'd like to provide GNU
utilities for the readers, but I don't want to break the spirit of the
copyleft.

[ \tom haapanen   --   university of waterloo  --  tom@mims-iris.waterloo.edu ]
[ comp.binaries.os2 moderator -- submissions to os2bin@mims-iris.waterloo.edu ]
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