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Date: | Tue, 29 Sep 2009 21:21:51 +1000 |
From: | Luke Kendall <luke DOT kendall AT cisra DOT canon DOT com DOT au> |
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Subject: | Re: Four license questions that affect commercial use of Cygwin |
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Stephen Bennett wrote: >> Um, and assuming that we found a list of packages that had no licenses, >> and a list of packages with licenses that we can't accept, is there any >> way to supply setup with a pre-defined list of packages to include or >> exclude? Or would everyone installing Cygwin at our company have to >> read through a list of disallowed-by-our-company packages and deselect >> each one (after first clicking on All)? > > If you're in search of a centralised approach, it's a fairly easy exercise > to run your own internal mirror, containing only those packages that you've > verified as acceptable. We do just that here for different reasons -- we > need to patch certain packages for various reasons. > > Once that has been set up, then everyone can simply install from there and > be sure that they're not getting any packages with legal problems. You'd > still need someone to do that checking in the first place, though. Good suggestion, that'd work. Thanks! luke > Accelrys Limited (http://accelrys.com) > Registered office: 334 Cambridge Science Park, Cambridge, CB4 0WN, UK > Registered in England: 2326316 > -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
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