On Fri, 10 Jan 2003 Hell.Surfers@cwctv.net wrote:
> what early distribution? grep gpl and lgpl...
>
> -- DM.
>
Yggdrasl (or however you spell it). Most binary files have
the date of Feb 26, 1996. Many text files have the date of
July 11, 1995. I have sources, many with the dates of
Aug 31, 1992:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root bin 4502 Aug 31 1992 CHANGES
-rw-r--r-- 1 root bin 1658 Aug 31 1992 README
-rw-r--r-- 1 root bin 2029 Aug 31 1992 brac.c
-rw-r--r-- 1 root bin 11258 Aug 31 1992 ch.c
-rw-r--r-- 1 root bin 3534 Aug 31 1992 charset.c
[SNIPPED...]
In those days very few persons even heard of GPL.
These are the only gpl or GPL strings found in any binaries.
sub showGPL {
last if (/^{END OF GPL COPYRIGHT}$/) ;
last if (/^{END OF GPL CONDITIONS}$/) ;
&showGPL unless $QUIET ;
{END OF GPL COPYRIGHT}
{END OF GPL CONDITIONS}
To appear in SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design
label .about.gpl3 -text "Pulic License (GPL)"
Note that "Public" is even spelled incorrectly!
Cheers,
Dick Johnson
Penguin : Linux version 2.4.18 on an i686 machine (797.90 BogoMips).
Why is the government concerned about the lunatic fringe? Think about it.
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