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> * tar and gzip are GPL; we have to ship the sources for them with
> every setup.exe.
If I remember my GPL correctly all you have to do is make the sources
available. Posting them on the same server in a reasonably conspicuous
location meets this requirement.
> We are creating cygwin, and we are supporting it. If the user does
> something different and we break, whose fault is it? I'd rather that
> setup guarantee a valid installation and let the user muck with it
> afterwards, than let setup take a chance with a random user
> configuration.
Just something to think about, how do we deal with their mucking for updates
via "setup -u"?
Thanks for taking the time to answer my questions, you have many good points
that I snipped for reply brevity. I always appreciate a well thought out
solution. IMO this is the kind of discussion that this list was designed
for.
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