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61 lines
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What is freecdb?
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It's a totally-public domain fork of cdb. cdb was originally created
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by Dan Bernstein. See the original web page at
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ftp://koobera.math.uic.edu/www/cdb.html for more on cdb.
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Why did you rewrite everything except the C sources?
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Because Dan Bernstein restricted their copying too much. I wanted to
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use cdb freely, and distribute as I wished.
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Please see http://www.debian.org/intro/free for a introduction on what
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I mean with "free".
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What did you do, exactly?
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I rewrote the man pages, build system and some other details.
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Converting the man pages to *roff format needs pod2man (from Perl),
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and the build system needs GNU Make. You want to install Perl and GNU
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Make anyway. You really do.
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But you broke portability!
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Might very well be true. I don't have experience with much else than
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Linux, and I'm nowhere near as capable of ensuring portability as DJB
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himself. Please tell me what I broke and I'll fix it.
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It doesn't work anymore!
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Oops. File a bug at http://bugs.debian.org/ and I'll see what I can do.
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I hate you for doing this! You free software biggots are all alike!
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And you self-centered non-sharers, too! You don't frighten us, English
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pig-dogs! Go and boil your bottoms, sons of a silly person! Ah blow my
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nose at you, so-called Arthur king! You and all your silly English
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k-nnnnnn-ighuts! Pttttht!
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What a strange person!
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Ah don't wanna talk to you anymore, you empty-headed animal foodtrough
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water! I fart in your general direction! Your mother was a hamster,
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and your father smelled of elderberries!
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[Apologies to Monty Python]
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