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I have only recently learned this and I too was surprised it's not a GNU project, and even more so it's not GPL-compatible.

The license it's essentially a BSD with the (absurd) restriction that you can't distribute the "complete modified source code", whatever that means, but only patches. I wonder what's the motivation.



It was first released in 1986.

Distribution of software was different then.




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