From:	"A.Appleyard" <A DOT APPLEYARD AT fs2 DOT mt DOT umist DOT ac DOT uk>
To:	DJGPP AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Date:	Fri, 24 Feb 1995 08:05:31 GMT
Subject:	Re: RSX is great and the point of freeware is questioned...

Stephen Turnbull <turnbull AT shako DOT sk DOT tsukuba DOT ac DOT jp> wrote (Subject: RSX is
great and the point of freeware is questioned...):-

  > ... Vendors typically put copyright statements on everything they release
... Come on, ctype.h copyrighted? ... I noticed DOS.H and MMSYSTEM.H
(Microsoft Mouse, I think) were also (C) Borland. ...

  In the djgpp sources, and likely elsewhere, I find that a wordy licence and
copyright (or `copyleft') at the start of each of a great lot of (often quite
short) *.CC and *.C and *.H files add up to a BIG amount of extra text! Once
when my PC was short of space, I went through my djgpp sources and edited out
all the licences. That freed a LOT!!!!! of my scarce hard disk space.
  Why can't djgpp have a directory C:\DJGPP\LICENCES\*.* containing one copy
of each different sort of licence? Then each licenced *.CC and *.C and *.H
file need only have a single line of comment saying e.g.:-

/*** For conditions of use of this file see file DJGPP\LICENCES\LIC-A.TXT ***/

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