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From: bb@wjh12.UUCP (byer)
Newsgroups: net.bugs.uucp,net.wanted,net.bugs.v7
Subject: Re: Want v7 uucp bug fixes (Source license??)
Message-ID: <506@wjh12.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 1-Sep-84 16:44:25 EDT
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Posted: Sat Sep  1 16:44:25 1984
Date-Received: Thu, 6-Sep-84 04:18:09 EDT
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>	Well, I never thought I'd be here, but:
>	
>	A friend just got an Altos running a v7 port.  I'd sincerely
>	appreciate anyone's aid in acquiring the current set of v7
>	uucp bug fixes, if any kind soul happens to have them and is
>	willing to let me have them.
>	
>		Thanks,
>	
>			Dave Ihnat
>			ihuxx!ignatz

The above request raises a question?

Doesn't this endeavor require a source license for an Altos, or a
sufficiently-rich cross-development environment (which is source-licensed)?

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This request also prompts a more general PLEA:

Would sites who are fortunate enough to have source licenses be willing
to provide updated/improved binaries of popular utilities to sites
with binary-only licenses (and the same architecture / compatible U*x)??

Yes, I know that this is the responsibility of the vendor, but most vendors
have a very insular view of ``working software'' -- if it doesn't
core-dump, it works!  FOO!!!

If there is sufficient support for this idea, could the net be used
as a clearinghouse of `who has what for which'?  Note: the binaries
would be retrieved via direct uucp; only the pointers would be in
net.binary.*, along with a description of the feature level.

	Brent Byer  (decvax!genrad!wjh12!bb)

		"Hey paro, I think he broke the President!"