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From: jbuck@epimass.EPI.COM (Joe Buck)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: v01i222: gnuegrep, GNU e?grep (part 01/02)
Message-ID: <2976@epimass.EPI.COM>
Date: 17 Mar 89 17:56:27 GMT
References: <6126@bsu-cs.UUCP> <330@enlog.Wichita.NCR.COM>
Reply-To: jbuck@epimass.EPI.COM (Joe Buck)
Organization: Entropic Processing, Inc., Cupertino, CA
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In article <330@enlog.Wichita.NCR.COM> tdavis@enlog.Wichita.NCR.COM (Tim Davis) writes:
>For instance the recent GNU e?grep posting readme file says "see
>the egrep.c file for distribution info.  THERE WAS NO .c file in
>the archive!

Sounds like we've got a problem.  The GNU redistribution agreement is
very strict (the Free Software Foundation people are passionate about
the way they feel software could be distributed), and by distributing
a binary without the GNU license you've violated it big time.

Rahul, I suggest you read the GNU software license carefully before
distributing binaries made from any more GNU stuff.  As I understand it,
if you also distribute source and you include a copy of the GNU license
you're legit.
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