Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 10 Jan 2003 13:36:46 -0500 (EST) | From | "Richard B. Johnson" <> | Subject | RE: What's in a name? |
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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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