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- From: ralf@ark.abg.sub.org (Ralf Stephan)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
- Subject: GNU (was: Re: Tcl to replacement most of /bin & /usr/bin (was: Tcl on Linux)
- Message-ID: <2b0fe00fwnr070@ark.abg.sub.org>
- Date: 22 Nov 92 12:31
- References: <9211163978@drktowr.chi.il.us>
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- magus@drktowr.chi.il.us (Louis Giliberto) writes:
- >
- > The reason GNU must be distributed with source is that so whoever
- > gets it can compile it and use it on their machine.
-
- Um, not exactly. If you give binaries you only have to also give the
- service of making the source available. That is, it must be handy,
- but not included (see the GPL).
-
- ralf
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