Mail Archives: djgpp/1997/01/29/10:30:23
On Tue, 28 Jan 1997, DJ Delorie wrote:
>
> > Also attached the zipped executables for the lazy ones like me.
>
> Please don't do this. Posting binaries wastes a LOT of bandwidth and
> disk space, and is probably going to end up cancelled by one of the
> cancelbots that monitors the comp.* newsgroups.
>
> It's also a violation of the GPL to post a binary without its source
> in a given forum. Since the djgpp distribution isn't distributed via
> usenet, someone who has ONLY usenet can get this binary and not the
> sources, and YOU will get in trouble for violating the GPL.
My apologies. Wont happen again.
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Peter Berdeklis
Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Toronto
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