> > > > But gzip for TOS exists! Perhaps you could add a gzip binary to the
> > > > utils directory. I will go and look for it, ok?
> > > But shouldn't I also put the TOS-sources somewhere? I thought this was
> > > required by the GPL.
> > 
> > It is. But have you ever seen an FTP-server carrying TOS and/or Linux
> > binaries, which also provides the sources from which those binaries were
> > compiled? It's peculiar that the GPL seems to be mostly respected only by
> > those who release the software they write under another license; kind of
> > a contradiction. Well, that's life...

I always find that _extremely_ amusing, as i'm not only an advocate of
a set of license terms that's far from the GPL, but i'm an advocate of
"copyright sense," i.e. the people should know what their copyrights
and license terms means...

As far as i can tell, _VERY_ few people actually pay serious attention
to, understand, or even (in many cases) _look at_ the license terms
for the software and/or source code they use, or the various laws,
treaties, and conventions that underly the notion of "copyright."


> When looking at the gnu source tree, especially gzip :-), I found out that
> you can compile it for the atari-st also. So I guess we are reasonably
> fullfilling the requirements.

Just FYI: (as far as i can tell) the version of gzip in the NetBSD
source tree _does not_ include atari support.  therefore, if you're
going to distribute atari 'native' binaries, you need to distribute
the sources as well...



chris