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Article: 12819 of comp.protocols.kermit.misc
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From: billy_ball@home.org (bball)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.openbsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: Announcing C-Kermit 8.0 Beta.03
Date: 25 Sep 2001 03:19:17 GMT
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On 20 Sep 2001 15:58:38 GMT, Frederick Bruckman <fredb@immanent.net> wrote:
>In article <9o7ipr$b8b$1@newsmaster.cc.columbia.edu>,
> fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz) writes:
>> In article <9o75d0$bh7ug$2@ID-49635.news.dfncis.de>,
>> Thomas Mueller <tmueller@bluegrass.net> wrote:
>>: In comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc bball <billy_ball@home.org> wrote:
>>: > perhaps this has been discussed before, but why is C-Kermit not
>>: > available via netbsd.org? is this a decision by developers or
>>: > Columbia?
>>:
>>: I think this is a copyright issue. I believe Kermit is not included with
>>: Linux or the other BSDs, either.
>>:
>> Nothing prevents C-Kermit from being included with Linux, NetBSD, FreeBSD,
>> or OpenBSD. The copyright specifically allows it:
>>
>> ftp://kermit.columbia.edu/kermit/c-kermit/COPYING.TXT
>>
>> and indeed distributors of all of these free OS's are welcome and invited
>> to include it. C-Kermit is included in some Linux distributions; sometimes
>> in the base package, sometimes with the "power tools" or whatever.
>
>Not to cloud the issue with facts, but binary packages of kermit-7.0.96
>have been available for download on ftp.netbsd.org for nearly every
^^^^^^
>architecture NetBSD supports for over a year now. Just look, huh?
'nearly' doesn't include hpcmips... although rebuilding minicom provides a
viable client...
>
>Frederick