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- From: jrh@mustang.dell.com (Randy Howard)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
- Subject: Re: DELL SVR4 - separate /usr and /var filesystem?
- Keywords: dell svr4 filesystem
- Message-ID: <jrh.716218716@mustang>
- Date: 11 Sep 92 13:38:36 GMT
- References: <1992Sep8.145610.1099@godzilla.quotron.com> <BuB4tJ.FK0@gator.rn.com> <1992Sep9.135941.13504@godzilla.quotron.com> <BuDt75.D1p@chinet.chi.il.us>
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- Organization: Dell Computer Co
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- randy@chinet.chi.il.us (Randy Suess) writes:
- >>>As a bonus, Dell comes with all kinds of PDS ported and ready to run.
- >>I hope that they got the OK from the authors of the PD software!
-
- > Uh, don't think so. PD is Public Domain! They could sell
- > it if they wanted, and don't need to contact anyone.
-
- All of the "PD" (insert your own personal definition here) packages that
- I added to the distribution were cleared first with an email to the author
- explaining what we intended to do, and asking them for a reply. To date,
- I haven't had anyone say 'no'. Some that fall under the GNU PL require
- the inclusion of the source code, which we now provide on both the
- source tape and our ftp sites. If we were to receive any complaints from
- an author of one of these packages, we would try to work it out, and
- failing that, just remove the package. They are there as a bonus, so the
- end user would have one less pre-installed app, that's all. The majority
- of the users we talk to have been appreciative of their inclusion, or we
- wouldn't bother.
-
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