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From: dahe@cl.cam.ac.uk (David Elworthy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Re: GhostScript/GNU licenses
Message-ID: <1991May15.110846.3065@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Date: 15 May 91 11:08:46 GMT
References: <1991May13.104350.14330@cl.cam.ac.uk> <7052@acorn.co.uk>
Reply-To: dahe@cl.cam.ac.uk (David Elworthy)
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Organization: U of Cambridge Comp Lab, UK
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In article <7052@acorn.co.uk> aglover@acorn.co.uk (Alan Glover) writes:
>Yep, I would have liked to split it too - can you imagine how long it took
>to post 31 parts. (Incidentally apologies to anyone who got them slightly
>out of order - the mail system here decided to collect some articles before
>others .... I posted 'em in sequence honest :-))
>
>However, look at the !Help file - it asks that the whole lot be treated as
>one chunk - sources included. Since I don't know whether everyone has
>comp.sources available I didn't split it.
>

To make this clear, this is because of the terms of the Gnu licence (as I
understood it at least).

>As for the issue of which CLib it works with, I'm working on that one, and
>will be posting the minimum possible to get it going with 3.50 or 3.66.
>

I've just rebuilt it with 3.66, and will be posting the changes to Alan
shortly. There is also a change to the !Run file, which means -- I hope! --
that it works OK on 1M machines. Some people reported getting an "Abort on
data transfer" message. I recreated the problem, and have check that it no
longer happens, using a 310. The release note will also say how you can set up
a minimal system, which makes it usable from floppy. Watch comp.binaries.acorn
for details!

-- david elworthy