Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!mailrus!ames!amdahl!pacbell!hoptoad!gnu From: gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore) Newsgroups: comp.sources.d Subject: Re: SEA files against pkarc author Message-ID: <4822@hoptoad.uucp> Date: 5 Jul 88 08:07:21 GMT References: <4817@hoptoad.uucp> Organization: Grasshopper Group in San Francisco Lines: 28 hyc@math.lsa.umich.edu (Howard Chu) writes: > ...I've been > sitting on the sources for ARC 5.21 for Unix for a couple weeks > now. Can I submit them to one of the sources groups? manes@dasys1.UUCP (Steve Manes) wrote: > Probably not a good idea now. Not true. I spoke with Thom Henderson by phone before Howard and Rich $alz released the sources, and he gave us permission. I just uploaded the posted sources from comp.sources.unix to Thom's BBS system, as he requested, so we are in full compliance with Thom's conditions. You are free to keep and use and improve Unix arc as a noncommercial program. During the phone call I even asked him "What's the difference between us and Phil Katz?"; his response was simplicity itself: "You have permission from me to distribute it!" (Also, Katz' PKARC is a commercial product and it runs on MSDOS, which is a market SEA cares to support and compete in.) There's a good article in this week's FidoNews on page 13, "SEA vs PKWare -- What's It About?" by Ben Baker. If you use readnews or vnews, type "p" to get to the FidoNews digest, then go forward to page 13. -- John Gilmore {sun,pacbell,uunet,pyramid,amdahl}!hoptoad!gnu gnu@toad.com "And if there's danger don't you try to overlook it, Because you knew the job was dangerous when you took it"