Mail Archives: cygwin/2001/08/27/13:56:23
Christopher Faylor wrote:
> "Why are you giving me a hard time! I'm a free software project!". Yes,
> we hear this from time to time. The GPL is a legal binding document.
> If you want to use it, you should be in compliance with it. You don't
> get to ignore it because you consider yourself "one of the good guys".
> It would be nice if life worked that way, but it doesn't.
Yep. There ain't no sech thing as a "good guys get-out-of-jail-free"
clause in the GPL.
> It apparently isn't clear to you that "Cygwin's own installation tools"
> were meant to install, um, the cygwin packages from the cygwin web site
> and mirrors. They don't have accomodations for using other web sites or
> being bundled as part of a larger package. That is what I was saying
> above.
But remember, setup is open source. You can grab the sources, modify
them to your heart's content, and distribute THAT version of setup to
install your cygwin-based add-on packages. (or just name your package
"prc-tools-cygwin-<version>.tar.gz")
BTW, XEmacs did exactly this: they're using a *heavily* modified
version of cygwin's setup for distributing both the cygwin- and native-
versions of XEmacs (they also have other "shrink-wrap" style installers
for the native XEmacs).
--Chuck
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