James,

I have been on leave for 2 days.

> > I have included some attached files with are the IP of the company I
> > work for.
> >
> > I'll send a copy without the files to the mailing list separately. Can
> > you please treat these files as confidential and delete them when you
> > have finished with them. I'm being super paranoid here, but want to give
> > my employers some peace of mind.
> 
> Please don't do this!     I don't want to see your confidential
> material, and neither should you be forced to divulge it in order to
> get help.
> 
> Instead, use the file "testutils/mogrify.awk" in the CSSC distribution to
> delete the actual body lines of the SCCS files.  That will expunge the
> problematic content of the files.  The comments are left intact however,
> so please double-check those for any information you wouldn't want to be
> made public.

That sounds like a better solution. In actual fact the amount of proprietary 
code is tiny and 
would be totally useless without the other 13,000 odd files.

I probably won't get back to this until 3 weeks hence, unfortunately. But will 
definitely will 
follow it up.

> 
> I think you should be able to reproduce the behaviour you're talking
> about on the "mogrified" version of the files.
> 
> Please note also though that the GNU Project prefers not to use the
> term "Intellectual Property" as it represents a confusion between two
> concepts that are in fact distinct; see
> http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#IntellectualProperty for
> a brief explanation.

Thanks, I'll have a look at it. I have a lot of respect for the opinions of the 
FSF.

> 
> Thanks,
> James.

Geoff


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