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From: jason@verdi.jlc.net (Jason T. Nelson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: New FreeBSD user with problems
Date: 5 Apr 1997 20:15:53 GMT
Organization: John Leslie Consulting
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In article <5i5pec$2dm@idiom.com>, Michael Craft wrote:
> [original attribution lost]
>> 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.

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Jason T. Nelson <jason@jlc.net>
http://www.jlc.net/~jason/
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