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Re: New Software License idea: "The Freedom License."


From: Joerg Schilling
Subject: Re: New Software License idea: "The Freedom License."
Date: 23 May 2006 19:14:34 GMT

In article <sblv4e.lb1.ln@acm.acm>, Alan Mackenzie  <acm@muc.de> wrote:
>Karen Hill <karen_hill22@yahoo.com> wrote on 22 May 2006 16:49:50 -0700:

>What is wrong with this?  Commands like make have evolved considerably
>since 1972.  However, inside the GNU make info page you can read this:
>
>       GNU `make' conforms to section 6.2 of `IEEE Standard 1003.2-1992'
>    (POSIX.2).

Do you believe all false claims?

GNU make has many bugs that prevent GNU make from being POSIX compliant.

Some of the bugs are related to the makefile parser and this cause real 
problems.

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