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Date:	Thu, 20 Jul 2000 21:41:25 -0400
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From:	DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
To:	scarter AT emware DOT com
CC:	cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
In-reply-to:	<50028CAE26D1D3118C7F00A0CC50D6252D1E4E@EMWARESERVER> (message
	from Scott Carter on Thu, 20 Jul 2000 19:22:32 -0600)
Subject:	Re: make --win32 incorrectly handles PATH
References:	<50028CAE26D1D3118C7F00A0CC50D6252D1E4E AT EMWARESERVER>

> Then more recently, I read the GPL and decided that we would be obliged to
> distribute the source with the binaries even if we didn't change the source.

True, or at least offer to provide them later (see GPL sec 3b), but
it's still your responsibility.

> Then we didn't want to diddle the source because we didn't want to take on
> the additional responsibility of maintaining our own version of make --
> that's not the business we're in. So again, we were hoping we might get the
> fixes from cygnus.

Option - diddle the sources and submit the changes back to the make
maintainers (which aren't cygnus, btw).  Then they become official and
you don't have to maintain your own version any more.

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