Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!samsung!uunet!convex!tchrist@convex.COM
From: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen)
Newsgroups: alt.sources.d
Subject: Re: gettime.c - gets another system's time
Message-ID: <3274@convex.UUCP>
Date: 21 Nov 89 04:35:56 GMT
References: <1929@psuhcx.psu.edu>
Sender: news@convex.UUCP
Reply-To: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen)
Distribution: alt
Organization: CONVEX Software Development, Richardson, TX
Lines: 14

Did we really need 12.5k of licence for 3.5k of source code????

This really seems like a waste of net bandwidth.  And it's not
like the program hasn't been written before many times.  I'm 
not sure it merited the GPL.  But don't take me wrong: I support
alt.sources and freely-redistributable software, although I sometimes
question that the GNU idea is really better than public domain software, 
like Henry Spencer's regular expression libaries.

--tom

    Tom Christiansen                       {uunet,uiucdcs,sun}!convex!tchrist 
    Convex Computer Corporation                            tchrist@convex.COM
		 "EMACS belongs in <sys/errno.h>: Editor too big!"