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Re: Softwares without source code - no tag?



On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 03:10:52AM +0300, Cem Kayali wrote:
>  Tonight, I was searching through pkgsrc/distfiles and noticed that  
> 'devel/py-setuptools' downloaded 'setuptools-0.6c6-py2.4.egg' binary  
> file. I know, the origin of the file is from an free-software project,  
> but this is somehow annoying.

That is not closed source. A Python Egg is just a zip archive with some
meta data. It still includes the Python source.

Joerg


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