Mail Archives: cygwin/2008/04/08/04:12:12
On Apr 7 21:18, Charles Wilson wrote:
> I'm trying to be explicit about licensing in csih for the next release. I
> realize it's a little silly to use the GPL on a script (binary == source,
> right?), but it may be necessary because part of it is derived from
> cygport, which is GPLv3.
>
> csih (the script part) has been derived from a number of sources:
>
> # ssh-host-config Copyright 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 Red Hat Inc.
> # part of the Cygwin port of OpenSSH
> (no explicit licensing)
It's implicitely BSD licensed due to it's nature to be part of the
OpenSSH source tree. I will stick to this notion for the
ssh-host-config and ssh-user-config script.
> # cygport Copyright (C) 2006, 2007 Yaakov Selkowitz
> # GPL v3
> (mostly the messaging functions: csih_inform, csih_error, etc)
>
> # exim-config Copyright Pierre A. Humblet, 2003-2007.
> # cron-config Copyright Pierre A. Humblet, 2003-2007.
> (no explicit licensing)
>[...]
> Can I use the MIT/X license for the portions of
> cygwin-service-installation-helper.sh that were derived from the config
> script(s) under your control?
The MIT license is fine with me.
Corinna
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