Am 17. Oct, 2002 schwätzte Craig White so:

> Indeed - I was imprecise. Their standard distributions don't include
> anything without the source. I have bought their 'professional' package
> which contains proprietary stuff such as Acrobat Reader, JSK, Loki Games
> etc. I started with 5.2 (I believe that 6.0 was actually shipping then
> but 5.2 came with the book I bought) and so you are much more equipped
> to give us history.

That makes more sense as well. The downloadable dist should be only Free
Software. Also, I just recalled that whire many of these apps are no cost,
that doesn't mean you're allowed to redistribute them. Take the m$ core true
type fonts as an example. Take pine and qmail binaries as more examples.

> touche - thanks for the wonderful clarity

Glad it helped.

ciao,

der.hans
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