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Timo Salmi
Dear Harlan,
Thank you for your vigilance. I had missed the situation and I agree.
Licenses are licenses. And besides I have neither the time nor the
interest to delve into the legalities and the question who is
responsible for the obviously stripped package. I'll just take my cues
from your finding, since I do not wish to be involved with the
distribution of any clearly controversial material. Thus I am
immediately withdrawing the following two packages from the public
distribution at Garbo
http://garbo.uwasa.fi/pub/win95/unix/UnxUtils.zip
http://garbo.uwasa.fi/pub/win95/unix/UnxUpdates.zip
The problem, incidentally, with some of the more recent GNU ports, is
that they require a separate installation since a number of the
utilities are dependent on non-default dll:s. That's why the above
collections would have been useful. They do not require any
installation, just the unzipping. But I am confident that the gentle
users will themselves find proper original or replacement utilities.
As for the good suggestion of adding a README to the packages, I do not
take that route. I manipulate the contents of only such packages where
the copyright belongs to me.
P.S. My apologies for the the deliberate, one-time top-posting. The
reason for this exception is that I'll be using the Google reference to
this posting as a note of what happened to which utilities at the Garbo
archives.
All the best, Timo
Thank you for your vigilance. I had missed the situation and I agree.
Licenses are licenses. And besides I have neither the time nor the
interest to delve into the legalities and the question who is
responsible for the obviously stripped package. I'll just take my cues
from your finding, since I do not wish to be involved with the
distribution of any clearly controversial material. Thus I am
immediately withdrawing the following two packages from the public
distribution at Garbo
http://garbo.uwasa.fi/pub/win95/unix/UnxUtils.zip
http://garbo.uwasa.fi/pub/win95/unix/UnxUpdates.zip
The problem, incidentally, with some of the more recent GNU ports, is
that they require a separate installation since a number of the
utilities are dependent on non-default dll:s. That's why the above
collections would have been useful. They do not require any
installation, just the unzipping. But I am confident that the gentle
users will themselves find proper original or replacement utilities.
As for the good suggestion of adding a README to the packages, I do not
take that route. I manipulate the contents of only such packages where
the copyright belongs to me.
P.S. My apologies for the the deliberate, one-time top-posting. The
reason for this exception is that I'll be using the Google reference to
this posting as a note of what happened to which utilities at the Garbo
archives.
All the best, Timo