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On Thu, 11 Oct 2001 11:37:27 +0100 (BST), Alan Cox wrote:

>>   If this is about maintainability, why not just a simple flag stating if
>> source is available or not.

>Available under what terms, NDA'd, subject to unacceptable other rules etc..
>Its not as simple as it looks

	I thought the issue was just whether or not people could get access to the 
source code for debugging purposes. What we really need is a tag that simply 
says, 'anyone can get the source code to this module for debugging purposes 
[from this URL, maybe]'.

	DS


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