Mail Archives: cygwin/2005/04/22/21:00:55
On 4/22/2005 10:56 AM, David Rothenberger wrote:
> On 4/22/2005 8:52 AM, David Rothenberger wrote:
>
>> I ran across a tool called "Trader's Little Helper" at [url removed
>> because it trips the cygwin spam filter] that includes the
>> cygwin1.dll, but doesn't provide source code. Even worse, it puts
>> cygwin1.dll in C:\WINDOWS!
>
>
> I succeeded in contacting the author of this tool this morning and I
> informed him of the problems and directed him to the cygwin site for
> more information. I didn't attempt to contact any of the authors of the
> other packages.
>
The author of Trader's Little Helper responded to me. He basically said
the following:
1. He doesn't think shorten or shntool are violating the GPL because
they have been around for years.
2. He doesn't think he's violating the GPL because he's not linking to
the cygwin DLL nor modifying it.
IANAL, but I think that his second point is correct. I still think
shorten and shntool are violating the GPL because they *are* linking to
the DLL; it doesn't really matter that it hasn't been caught for years -
there is no statue of limitations in the GPL.
So, to me it seems that only shorten and shntool are violating the GPL
and not TLH, dBpowerAMP, nor the Nero SHN plugin.
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