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Re: [LUG] Freeduc & the forthcomming meeting



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Brough, Tom wrote:
>
> but then refused to
> continue to boot.

Dosn't sound good. More on symptoms.

> I would be very happy to rip off (burn) some copies of Freeduc to bring to
> the meeting, however I noticed on the Freeduc / OFSET website that they
> think there is an issue with the fact that they do not supply source as
> specified under the terms of the GPL agreement. This apparently didn't
stop
> Linux Format from putting it on their front cover a couple of months back.

It is a recent change, I'm not that concerned, but am aware of the issue.

The stated reason AFAIK is lack of sources, but the GNU GPL specifically
allows for the situation of not-for-profit distros not bundling source
where the source is available elsewhere.

> The other issue I have is my sucessful burn ratio is about 50:50.

I can burn them myself reliably at 8x, but thanks for the offer.

 Eek my first bug report for GNU Chess 5.06 and I only released it this
afternoon - oh damn it is a biggy too.

 Simon
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