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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
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Organization: Grasshopper Group in San Francisco
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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"