Mail Archives: cygwin/2004/03/06/14:11:25
On Sun, Mar 07, 2004 at 01:18:17AM +0700, David Garamond wrote:
>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>>>Actually, hopefully, you are bunding postgresql + cygwin + whatever other
>>>>binaries + *the sources to same* since this is a GPLed project, meaning
>>>>that you have to provide sources for the binaries that you distribute
>>>>as per the GPL.
>>>
>>>No source code is modified/recompiled. I'm just providing a convenience
>>>packaging. COPYING + the BSD license (for Postgres) is included, plus
>>>I'm informing in the README that Cygwin is GPL'ed, and to get the source
>>>one should go to http://www.cygwin.com/. I believe that is sufficient?
>>>(since no source code is modified anyway).
>>
>>Unfortunately, no, it's not sufficient. The GPL doesn't have a "no
>>source code is modified" clause. For the cygwin DLL, and any of the
>>utilities that come with it, you have to adhere to the GPL which
>>means that the source code has to be provided.
>
>I see. I'll provide the source code on my own website then, link to the
>URL and not http://www.cygwin.com/, but does not include it in the .zip
>distribution, to keep the .zip smaller. That should cover the "from the
>same place" requirement.
Yep. As long as it's from the same place, that's ok. You could even
suggest that the best place to get the current source code is
http://cygwin.com/ .
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