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Date:      Mon, 13 Mar 1995 18:46:07 -0700
From:      Nate Williams <nate@trout.sri.MT.net>
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@ref.tfs.com>, rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com (Rodney W. Grimes)
Cc:        phk@freefall.cdrom.com, CVS-commiters@freefall.cdrom.com, cvs-user@freefall.cdrom.com
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/release/compat20 libgcc.so.261.0.uu
Message-ID:  <199503140146.SAA04268@trout.sri.MT.net>
In-Reply-To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@ref.tfs.com> "Re: cvs commit: src/release/compat20 libgcc.so.261.0.uu" (Mar 13,  5:36pm)

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> > >   Added:       release/compat20 libgcc.so.261.0.uu

> > >   This is the shared version of the libgcc which we will need for 2.0 stuff
> > >   to run on 2.1.
> > 
> > sources and you are not providing the sources to build this binary.
> > 
> > More specifically you are violating section 3 of the GPL by doing this :-(.
> 
> We DO provide the sources.  src/gnu/usr.bin/cc/libgcc.

But the source code in there is not the same as the source code that
built the shlib, so we are still in violation.  If we want to be truly
safe, we also need to provide the patch that brings the new sources back
to the old source state.  (And people wonder why I think the GPL is a
pain in the butt!)



Nate



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