Re: source code

[Eric Blake]

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According to Matthew Woehlke on 9/29/2008 2:01 PM:
> Michael Williamson wrote:
>> I do not have a bug to report. I have a question.
>>
>> Where is the source code for the program "tail".
>> I cannot find a "tail.c" on Fedora or openSuSE.
> 
> You want the SRPM for "coreutils". There is a tail.c in src/ (at least
> in 6.9, but I doubt it's been moved).

To follow up on this, the GPL guarantees that you have the right to ask
whoever provided you with the binary to also give you the source, but
still leaves distributors the option of making it a separate download (not
everyone wants to see the source).  So it is perfectly acceptable for your
machine to have no occurrence of tail.c if you have not followed the steps
to get the source code from the provider of the binary.

> 
> You could also download the upstream source from
> http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/.

In particular,
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=history;f=src/tail.c;h=43fd6d41;hb=0482f19

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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