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Date:      Sat, 15 May 1999 07:30:14 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
To:        davids@webmaster.com (David Schwartz)
Cc:        tlambert@primenet.com, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Richard Stallman came to town
Message-ID:  <199905150730.AAA07389@usr09.primenet.com>
In-Reply-To: <000001be9ea2$4416ad60$021d85d1@whenever.youwant.to> from "David Schwartz" at May 15, 99 00:12:17 am

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> > You would think that someone as smart as he's portrayed to be would
> > know how to write a disassembler...
>
> 	He's quite precise:
> 
> The source code for a work means the preferred form of the work for
> making modifications to it.  For an executable work, complete source
> code means all the source code for all modules it contains, plus any
> associated interface definition files, plus the scripts used to
> control compilation and installation of the executable.  However, as a
> special exception, the source code distributed need not include
> anything that is normally distributed (in either source or binary
> form) with the major components (compiler, kernel, and so on) of the
> operating system on which the executable runs, unless that component
> itself accompanies the executable.

So basically, you're saying that he's not very good at assembly
language programming, since if he was best at that, it'd be his
preferred form...


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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