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Date:      Mon, 13 Mar 1995 17:45:55 -0800 (PST)
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@ref.tfs.com>
To:        nate@trout.sri.MT.net (Nate Williams)
Cc:        rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com, 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.RAA01496@ref.tfs.com>
In-Reply-To: <199503140146.SAA04268@trout.sri.MT.net> from "Nate Williams" at Mar 13, 95 06:46:07 pm

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> > > >   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!)

I doubt the GNU people would be that anal retentive, since we already
published the sources for the 2.0-RELEASE on the net...

-- 
Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@login.dknet.dk> -- TRW Financial Systems, Inc.
'All relevant people are pertinent' && 'All rude people are impertinent'
=> 'no rude people are relevant'



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