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From: Andrew DeFaria <Andrew AT DeFaria DOT com>
Subject: Re: Is it free to use
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 17:32:39 -0700
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Bobby McNulty wrote:

> Personally, I'm bored with the free verses copyrighted material.

Then why are you here (I mean in this thread)?

> GPL means you should include your source code with your binary code. 
> Simple. Redhat does it, Mandrake does it, Cygnus does it. Cygwin's 
> sources are included in the download section. Next time, think before 
> you speak.

Contrary to your opinion I did think before I spoke! I don't think the 
people who would use my application would want, know, care about or 
understand the source and I didn't want to go through the additional 
effort to make them available, place proper attribution in the sources 
and require them to download an install Cygwin (if I were to use 
cygwin1.dll).
-- 
Question: Why do people always seem to find things in the last place 
that they look? Answer: Because most people stop looking after they find it!


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