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Re: SLS: now available (for testers)

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Date: Saturday, August 15, 1992 - 6:48 pm

In article <1992Aug15.215216.18073@sol.UVic.CA>, pmacdona@sanjuan (Peter MacDonald) writes:

| BTW:  If there are any comments about other software that should
| be added, please let me know.  I insist upon keeping it to 15 disks
| for now, but there is still some room left (not much though).
| But, if you just want to bitch about how it should contain
| the source tree, or should have all the alpha kernels and 
| tcpip alpha, etc, please consider using 386BSD.  The goal of SLS
| is to maintain a balance between small and featureful, with 
| an emphasis on the former.

I'm sorry you consider it bitching, but I /do/ think that the source
tree should be included, because the GPL requires that it be made
available. That's why I'm not distributing disks myself.

I would suggest that you break this into sections, like SCO (only not at
$1500/section) of install, base utils, extended utils, X, games, gcc,
and source.

I was not upset when you stated your prices, although lots of others
seemed to be. You are entitled by the GPL to charge whatever the market
will bear. I /am/ upset that you seem to be violating the GPL in your
distribution, and I hope others will be, too. You are welcome to
consider this a "bitch about how it should contain the source tree"
should you desire. I consider it "let's all play by the rules."

-- 
bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345
    I admit that when I was in school I wrote COBOL. But I didn't compile.
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