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binutils-2.20.1a replaced by 2.20.1 and so 2.21.1a?

Tristan Gingold gingold@adacore.com
Tue Aug 30 22:05:00 GMT 2011 
On Aug 30, 2011, at 5:32 PM, Steffen Dettmer wrote:

>> This was a license issue raised by the FSF: some files were
>> derived from cgen files, but these cgen files weren't included
>> in the tarballs.  We were asked by the FSF to repackage all the
>> incomplete tarballs.
> 
> Thank you for your quick reply.
> 
> The issue itself is interesting. Sounds like much effort and may
> even require undesired things like modifying release tags...
> I though it would be sufficient to publish GPLed files, not that a
> special form could be required (and I had assumed it had been
> sufficient to put them on some public server or even just to some
> CVS repository reabable by the public).

Yes, the workload is not minimal, but this was the FSF decision.

Tristan.
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