Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!gistdev!jeff
From: jeff@gistdev.gist.com (Jeff Johnson)
Newsgroups: alt.sources.d
Subject: Re: gettime.c - gets another system's time
Message-ID: <834@gistdev.gist.com>
Date: 21 Nov 89 06:22:02 GMT
References: <1929@psuhcx.psu.edu>
Distribution: alt
Organization: Global Information Systems Technology Inc., Savoy, IL
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wcf@psuhcx.psu.edu (Bill Fenner) writes:

>#! /bin/sh
># This is a shell archive.  Remove anything before this line, then unpack
. . .
># Contents:  COPYING README Makefile gettime.c
. . .
># Wrapped by wcf@psuhcx on Mon Nov 20 15:07:14 1989
. . .
>echo shar: Extracting \"COPYING\" \(12488 characters\)
. . .
>echo shar: Extracting \"README\" \(719 characters\)
. . .
>echo shar: Extracting \"Makefile\" \(465 characters\)
. . .
>echo shar: Extracting \"gettime.c\" \(3593 characters\)


FLAME ON !

This is ridiculous!  Including a 12.5K license agreement for a ~4K
source program and Makefile.  The license is 3X larger than the program
and on top of that the source begins with more copyright mumbo-jumbo.

I have no problem with copyrights, licenses, GNU or their copyleft.  But
is there REALLY a need to distribute "COPYING" AGAIN?  You could have just
pointed us to one of the BILLION other copies floating on the net and
save us phone charges!

Of course I realize this flame costs money too, but maybe someone else
will think twice before doing the same thing.

This is nothing personal aimed at Bill Fenner either...

FLAME OFF

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