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Date:	Thu, 22 Feb 2001 13:04:55 -0500
From:	Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
To:	"'Earnie Boyd'" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject:	Re: cygwin with sockscap32
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In-Reply-To:	<3A954C6E.FF247549@ece.gatech.edu>; from cwilson@ece.gatech.edu on Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 12:29:18PM -0500

On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 12:29:18PM -0500, Charles S. Wilson wrote:
>"MADHU,SURESH (HP-Cupertino,ex1)" wrote:
>> 
>> I think its a cygnus issue. Because the sockscap code has not changed, but
>> the cygwin code has - and the sockscap source code is not as open source as
>> the cygnus code, 
>
>Yes.  It is and must be -- but perhaps the sockscap owners don't
>understand that.  By linking to the cygwin1.dll, the sockscap code is
>required to be open source.  If you cannot obtain the source from them,
>then it is because the owners are VIOLATING cygwin's license.
>
>They MUST release the code -- if they don't, I'm sure Red Hat's lawyers
>would love to talk with them.

Yup.

Also the fact that something "worked" before and "doesn't work" after upgrading
cygwin does *not* automatically mean that "it's a cygwin problem".

cgf

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