Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!maytag!watstat!dmurdoch
From: dmurdoch@watstat.waterloo.edu (Duncan Murdoch)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: zoo'ed IBM-PC binaries?
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Date: 24 Feb 89 19:12:48 GMT
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In article <5889@bsu-cs.UUCP> dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) writes:
>
>Let's you (the Usenet user) and me make a deal.  If you will vote at
>least 2 to 1 in favor of using zoo rather than arc for
>comp.binaries.ibm.pc, I will drop all distribution restrictions on all
>versions of zoo, with the minor exceptions that (a) nothing
>incompatible be created from my code and (b) source be made available
>for any binaries distributed unless I agree otherwise.

I'll vote for zoo, but would like to point out that your condition (b) is
rather ambiguous:  It seems like putting my source up for sale for a 
high price follows the letter, but not the spirit, of what you've written.

I'd agree to the condition even if the requirement was free, or at cost, 
source code distribution.  But then I know nothing about file compression,
so it's not too likely to affect me anyways.

Duncan Murdoch