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- From: donn@dellunix.dell.com (Donn Baumgartner)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
- Subject: Re: Dell SVR4 and GCC sources (or lack therof)
- Message-ID: <1992Jul21.084214.27790@dellunix.dell.com>
- Date: 21 Jul 92 08:42:14 GMT
- References: <d3bm2a+@dixie.com>
- Organization: DELL Computer --UNIX Software Development Group-- Austin, Texas
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- Stan Brown writes:
- > I thought that the GNU Public License required you to distribute
- > the sources with theeir stuff if you were going to duistribute the
- > binaries. It appears that Dell dosn't do this. My question is how
- > can they get away with distributing the executables only? Am i
- > misunderstanding the GNU license ?
-
- Actually, Dell does include all the PD/freely-available source on the
- Issue 2.2 tape (towards the end). Previously it was available via
- anonymous ftp, anonymous uucp, and by request from Dell... However,
- FSF ask if we would start including it with the shipped system, and so
- we do now. [Previously this would have cost us an extra tape that we would
- have had to charge for... since not all customers wanted the source or the
- extra charge, it seemed best to give a free tape just to those who ask]
-
- At any rate... it's in there. Next!
- - Donn
-