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Date:	Thu, 20 Dec 2001 04:34:47 -0500
From:	Charles Wilson <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>
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To:	Charles Wilson <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>
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Subject:	Re: GPL Violation - VCDImager
References:	<3C21A41F DOT 1040508 AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu> <3C21A752 DOT 9090401 AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>

And VCDEasy (http://www.vcdhelp.com/vcdeasy.htm) full version only -- by 
virtue of the fact that it includes cdrdao and vcdimager inside, and 
each of THOSE violates cygwin's GPL...VCDEasy.exe *itself* does not 
appear to be a cygwin app.

Worse, the executables for vcdimager AND for cdrdao that vcdeasy 
distributes contain some code that checks for cygwin1.dll IN THE EXE's 
DIRECTORY and ***quits*** if it is removed, even if cygwin1.dll exists 
in the system PATH.   That is, they not only deliberately ignore the 
system cygwin1.dll even if the windows runtime loader finds it, but they 
also REQUIRE two spearate copies of cygwin1.dll -- one in the vcdimager 
subfolder and another in the cdrdao subfolder.

This is embarassing.
delphi DOT stuff AT vcdhelp DOT com

--Chuck

Charles Wilson wrote:

> Good god.  cdrdao is doing it, too.  
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/cdrdao/
> 
> --Chuck
> 
> Charles Wilson wrote:
> 
>> It seems that VCDImager (http://www.vcdimager.org/) is distributing 
>> windows binaries that depend on cygwin1.dll -- and include the dll in 
>> the binary archive, but I can't find any source for cygwin.  They 
>> appear to be distributing cygwin1.dll-1.3.1.  Sigh. You think somebody 
>> with the email address hvr AT gnu DOT org would know better...
>>
>> Chris, can you do the honors?
>>
>> --Chuck
>>
>>
> 
> 



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