Date: Tue, 14 Mar 1995 14:27:47 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: nate@trout.sri.MT.net, phk@ref.tfs.com Cc: CVS-commiters@freefall.cdrom.com, cvs-user@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/release/compat20 libgcc.so.261.0.uu Message-ID: <199503140427.OAA10154@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>> I doubt the GNU people would be that anal retentive, since we already >> published the sources for the 2.0-RELEASE on the net... >Uhh, you are wrong about that one. They are *very* anal and retentive >about it since they want *everyone* to be able to get the exact source >that created the binaries. The Minix folks find this out when Bruce >made the 1.X binaries available for minix-386 and the archive sites only >kept the binaries and the diffs. The GNU folks said they were required I've never made gnu binaries available for anything. >to keep the sources online as well even though the sources could be gotten >from other sites. The reasoning was the other sites would delete the >old sources when the new versions came on line (similar to us deleting 2.0 >when 2.1 comes on line). This restriction seems to have been relaxed for linux. It would take an archaelogical expedition to find complete sources for everything. Brucehome | help
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