Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm Sender: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Message-ID: <004501be70a6$f74244f0$29acdfd0@InspirePharm.Com> From: "Suhaib M. Siddiqi" To: , "cygwin users" Subject: Re: Cygwin license Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 13:50:02 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.0810.800 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.0810.800 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id NAA29384 >Currently, as I see it, the only way to keep compliance with all open >source licenses is to provide instructions on where to find the tools, >where to find the source and provide instructions on what to change >and how to build them yourself with warnings not to distribute the >binaries. Bartlee first stated this as a suggestion (at least most of >it), I reiterated it and no one has yet made any comments to >contridict it. > >If you plan to supply binaries using the cygwin1.dll then you must: >1) provide a means to obtain the source for that version of the >cygwin1.dll >2) provide a means to obtain the source for the packages that the >cygwin1.dll is dependent upon. >3) provide a means to obtain the source for the packages that you are >providing binaries for and ensure that those packages meet the >requirements for the GPL. > >Does anyone disagree with this? > I agree!!! Suhaib PS: Ernie, I noticed a few of your messages sent to me from Yahoo.com bounced. Sorry about it, we block all the emails originating from yahoo.com prontomail.com, lycos.com and other web based server because of a huge number of SPAM also originating from these sites. If you reply my message make sure you change my address from ssiddiqi@inspirepharm.com to ssiddiqi@ipass.net. Sorry about it. >== >- \\||// >-------------------o0O0--Earnie--0O0o------------------- >-- earnie_boyd@yahoo.com -- >-- http://www.freeyellow.com/members5/gw32/index.html -- >----------------------ooo0O--O0ooo---------------------- > >PS: Newbie's, you should visit my page. >_________________________________________________________ >DO YOU YAHOO!? >Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > >-- >Want to unsubscribe from this list? >Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com > > -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com