Mail Archives: cygwin/2001/10/22/11:43:03
I know I'm a little late but I'd like to add the following:
The Cygwin version of the clients has readline support which the
native version lacks. They do *not* distribute the Cygwin sources and
thus violate the GPL. I offered them a few months ago to upload a new
package with a more recent cygwin1.dll including the sources, but they
didn't even bother to respond. I conclude that this is just not an
issue for them. Although I abhor wielding the legal stick at every
occasion, I wonder whether a nicely worded letter from a Cygwin/Redhat
official might make this an issue for them.
regards,
Markus
Robert Collins writes:
> Is there anyone here who has done a lot with MySQL?
> Anyone know whether they've licenced Cygwin b19 from Redhat? (Chris?)
>
> I've just noticed that they include a dll call cygwinb19.dll in
> mysql/lib for their win32 builds. The readme in that directory refers to
> VC5 and makes no comment on the cygwinb19.dll file.
>
> And their manuals only reference is that to use the mysqlc (mysql client
> linked to cygwin) one must copy the cygwin b19.dll to the windows system
> directory.
>
> Oh, and there is no source for cygwinb19.dll in the binary distribution,
> nor any specific notice that cygwinb19.dll as included has it's source
> available in their source tarball. (there is the usual COPYING file for
> the whole thing though).
>
> Hmmmm. AAARRRRGGGGHHH. Mysql isn't exactly a low profile open-source
> project. I haven't downloaded their 15 MB .zip source file to check
> whether the cygwin dll source is included or not - which is why I've
> mailed here in case someone else has and can confirm or deny. Their unix
> source file is ~11Mb, and I suspect that the 4Mb difference is more than
> just tar.gz getting better compression.
>
> So there are two issues here:
> 1) Why are they distributing b19?!?!?!??!
> 2) Are they in fact distributing the source.
>
> Rob
>
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