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From: jsi@idiom.com (Michael Craft)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: New FreeBSD user with problems
Date: 6 Apr 1997 07:25:35 -0700
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> >> The original Unix Zmodem package is proprietary software, that cannot
> >> be legally distributed on a CD-ROM.
> >Linux has it.
> 
> Linux does not have it because Linux is a kernel. Any distributions that
> ship with the zmodem package is in violation of copyright law.

So, Slackware is an illegal distribution of linux?

The lrzsz package is illegal?  kewl.