Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <3C21B0B7.9010807@ece.gatech.edu> Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 04:34:47 -0500 From: Charles Wilson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011019 Netscape6/6.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Charles Wilson CC: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: GPL Violation - VCDImager References: <3C21A41F.1040508@ece.gatech.edu> <3C21A752.9090401@ece.gatech.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit And VCDEasy (http://www.vcdhelp.com/vcdeasy.htm) full version only -- by virtue of the fact that it includes cdrdao and vcdimager inside, and each of THOSE violates cygwin's GPL...VCDEasy.exe *itself* does not appear to be a cygwin app. Worse, the executables for vcdimager AND for cdrdao that vcdeasy distributes contain some code that checks for cygwin1.dll IN THE EXE's DIRECTORY and ***quits*** if it is removed, even if cygwin1.dll exists in the system PATH. That is, they not only deliberately ignore the system cygwin1.dll even if the windows runtime loader finds it, but they also REQUIRE two spearate copies of cygwin1.dll -- one in the vcdimager subfolder and another in the cdrdao subfolder. This is embarassing. delphi.stuff@vcdhelp.com --Chuck Charles Wilson wrote: > Good god. cdrdao is doing it, too. > http://sourceforge.net/projects/cdrdao/ > > --Chuck > > Charles Wilson wrote: > >> It seems that VCDImager (http://www.vcdimager.org/) is distributing >> windows binaries that depend on cygwin1.dll -- and include the dll in >> the binary archive, but I can't find any source for cygwin. They >> appear to be distributing cygwin1.dll-1.3.1. Sigh. You think somebody >> with the email address hvr@gnu.org would know better... >> >> Chris, can you do the honors? >> >> --Chuck >> >> > > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/