Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <03c801c2b352$05daf100$9783883e@pomello> From: "Max Bowsher" To: "Jason Tishler" , , References: <20030103141927.GB1712@tishler.net> <20030103152502.GA2129@redhat.com> <20030103164611.GG1712@tishler.net> Subject: Re: clean_setup.pl binary-only cache patch Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2003 17:57:49 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Jason Tishler wrote: > On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 10:25:02AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 09:19:27AM -0500, Jason Tishler wrote: >>> The attached patch enables clean_setup.pl to handle binary-only >>> caches/mirrors. Specifically, when no "source:" tags are in the >>> setup.ini file. >>> [snip] >> >> Wouldn't such a mirror be in violation of the GPL? > > Hmm...good point. OK, I will fess up. I have such a mirror that is > only for the convenience of my co-workers and myself. It is not > distributed outside of our company. Note that I was just trying to > save bandwidth and disk space. > > If this is considered a GPL violation (and in hindsight, it probably > is), then I will update my script to download the source too. > > Jason > > P.S. Michael, you may want to hold up on that patch... :,) No reason to do that. The patch has a valid use: if I am maintaining a local cache for strictly my own personal use, the GPL does not force me to download the source corresponding to each binary. Max. -- 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/