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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