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From: mmcg@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Mike McGaughey)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: 2.1.5 CD-ROM missing stuff
Date: 6 Nov 96 11:24:08 GMT
Organization: Monash University
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j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) writes:
>Willem Wals <walsw@usoft.nl> wrote:
>> Yes, but that accounts for Netscape serveral others but there are a
>> number of free distributable packages that are missing as well.
>But these _were_ omitted due to copyright issues etc. Free != free,
>some software is ``freeer'' (:-) than other, so you cannot sell it on
>a CDROM. Alas, even things like kermit belong into this category.
Hmm. Last time I looked, the `info' set for 2.1.5 was savagely
truncated compared to that for 2.1.0 (I didn't notice it until I
wanted to check some things on G++ - anyone noticed the date on
the man page? :). In any case, 2.1.5 had a 300K (compressed) info
distribution, 2.1.0 had about a meg.
Cheers,
Mike.