RE: What's in a name?

["Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com>]

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).
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