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Date:      Mon, 13 Mar 1995 17:45:22 -0800 (PST)
From:      "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
To:        pst@shockwave.com (Paul Traina)
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:  <199503140145.RAA09156@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
In-Reply-To: <199503140134.RAA13774@precipice.Shockwave.COM> from "Paul Traina" at Mar 13, 95 05:34:33 pm

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> 
> Actually, what it means is you can never delete the 2.0-RELEASE distribution.

That does not cover all of what section 3 states, he is providing a GPL
based binary without the sources or any notice of where the sources are
or without an offer to provide the sources.

> 
>   From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
>   Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/release/compat20 libgcc.so.261.0.uu
>   > 
>   > phk         95/03/13 16:06:12
>   > 
>   >   Added:       release/compat20 libgcc.so.261.0.uu
>   >   Log:
>   >   This is the shared version of the libgcc which we will need for 2.0 stuff
>   >   to run on 2.1.
>   >   Obtained from:	2.0-RELEASE bindist
>   
>   I am not sure how good of an idea this is, after all that is made from GPL'ed
>   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 :-(.
>   
>   -- 
>   Rod Grimes                                      rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com
>   Accurate Automation Company                   Custom computers for FreeBSD
> 


-- 
Rod Grimes                                      rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com
Accurate Automation Company                   Custom computers for FreeBSD



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