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Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2003 07:30:31 -0800
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From: Randall R Schulz <rrschulz AT cris DOT com>
Subject: Re: cygwin license
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Ehud,

[ To CGF: In partial fulfillment of my assigned penance for suggesting 
I would cease to use Cygwin in favor of Linux because of my fear of MS 
spy-ware. ]


At 04:44 2003-04-02, you wrote:
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>...
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>I'm intending to do a similar thing - to make a CD with some Cygwin 
>programs and libraries and some other (proprietary) programs NOT 
>linked to the Cygwin libraries. The sources for all the Cygwin 
>programs and libraries will be on the same CD.

Conventional, non-legalistic wisdom is that this would be an acceptable 
discharging of the GPL requirements to provide all sources necessary to 
rebuild programs that include GPL-ed content.


>I thought that this satisfy the GPL and I don't have to have a license 
>from Red Hat. Please confirm or correct me.

Disclaimers
- I do not work for and cannot speak for Redhat
- I am not a lawyer
- Pointing to this mail will not serve as a defense if following this 
so-called advice gets you in trouble.

You may safely ignore me.


I will leave it to others to comment on the technical merits of using 
Cygwin without its intended installation and setup procedures.


>Ehud.


Randall Schulz



>Appendix - detailed description of the software distributed
>- -----------------------------------------------------------
>
>This distribution is of the SSH client. Only the following executable
>are needed: ssh.exe cygwin1.dll cygz.dll cygcrypto-0.9.7.dll.
>If rxvt window is preferred (easier support for Hebrew font and other
>niceties) then rxvt.exe and libW11.dll are also needed. NO registry
>setting or special directories (like /tmp or /etc) are needed.
>
>On the CD I put the following sources: cygwin-1.3.22-1-src.tar.bz2
>openssh-3.6.1p1-1-src.tar.bz2 openssl-0.9.7a-3-src.tar.bz2
>rxvt-2.7.10-2-src.tar.bz2 zlib-1.1.4-1-src.tar.bz2 .
>
>The running batch file is:
>
>c:
>set PATH=c:\tty\cygwin\bin
>set HOME=/cygdrive/c/tty
>
>cd \tty\cygwin\bin
>rxvt -fn "-*-Web Hebrew Monospace-normal-r-*-*-15-*-*-*-c-*-iso8859-1"
>- -geometry 120x46+0+0 -bg "navyblue" -fg "yellow" -sl 350 -e ssh -v %1
>
>
>Of course the rxvt command is on one line. There is a config file in
>the $HOME/.ssh that has all the targets.
>
>
>- --
>  Ehud Karni


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