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Maintaining sovix |
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Sat, 05 Jul 2008 02:38:15 -0400 |
I hereby dub sovix a GNU package.
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other suitable documentation places that it is a GNU program.
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new-gnu people, could you please enter David Englund in
gnuorg/maintainers and add him to the gnu-prog lists?
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