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Re: groff & grofflib.so.??



On Wed, 13 Aug 1997, Shlomi Fish wrote:

> At 11:56 PM 8/12/97 +0300, Peter Lorand Peres wrote:
> >
> >Could someone please tell what the copyright that covers groff and
> >grofflib.so.?? is ? I have a hunch they are not in the PD (pardon, free
> >software, er, GNU software).
> 
> Well, your hunch is wrong. Groff is part of the GNU distribution and is
> available at every GNU site as groff-1.10.tar.gz. Therefore it is subject
> to the GNU general public license (GPL).

groff has other implementations, I think I heard of nroff and troff (which
is the original one), and like many unix utils, GNU rewrote a new version
of their own (start suspecting when you see the G at the beginning of the
name, same for gawk, gzip, ghostscript etc.)


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