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From:	Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>
Date:	Mon, 19 Apr 1999 02:29:57 -0400
To:	tbisp AT pop DOT mpls DOT uswest DOT net
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Subject:	Re: Regex woes (and possible solution)
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In-Reply-To:	<3719480C.603306DD@pop.mpls.uswest.net>; from tbisp@uswest.net on Sat, Apr 17, 1999 at 09:48:44PM -0500

On Sat, Apr 17, 1999 at 09:48:44PM -0500, tbisp AT uswest DOT net wrote:
>Having checked the archives for a solution to my woes of getting id-utils 3.2d
>to work under cygwin with the non-posixified version of regex that is included
>and instead finding more people with the same problem as I, I would like to
>say that the version included in the package works (where as the one in cygwin
>does not). May I suggest that the maintainers look into using that one (it is
>under the GPL as it is copyrighted by the FSF.

We can't use GPL'ed source in Cygwin unless it's owned by Cygnus.

cgf

(Ok!  Quick everybody!  Let's have another long, drawn-out discussion about
licensing issues.  The prequisites: minimal to no reading of past threads on
the subject and/or minimal to non-existent understanding of the GPL, LGPL,
or Cygwin's licensing)

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