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: <410-220033225202029550@M2W026.mail2web.com> X-Priority: 3 Reply-To: lhall@rfk.com X-Originating-IP: 209.113.174.244 From: "lhall@pop.ma.ultranet.com" To: patl@users.sourceforge.net, cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Another GPL violation: Re: Minimalistic Build-Environmentforwin32 (~7.5MB) Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 15:20:29 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 25 Mar 2003 20:20:29.0578 (UTC) FILETIME=[FAAF56A0:01C2F30B] Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id h2PKKen27334 Original Message: ----------------- From: Patrick J. LoPresti patl@users.sourceforge.net Date: 25 Mar 2003 14:41:16 -0500 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Another GPL violation: Re: Minimalistic Build-Environmentforwin32 (~7.5MB) >>Christopher Faylor writes: >> If this truly has to descend to the level of having lawyers send >> something, I can do that. I think that everyone would prefer for >> that not to happen, however. > >Actually, I doubt it. It would be silly to spend money on lawyers to >threaten someone who is GIVING AWAY their software alongside Cygwin. >As long as they have not modified the source code, include proper >credit, provide a link, and are not trying to sell it, why not just >leave them alone? Personal opinions aside, Patrick, you should know that Chris is not only the project maintainer but a Red Hat employee. Red Hat takes their software very seriously and as well as their support of the GPL. While you may not believe that Red Hat would issue a cease and desist order based on input from Chris, that doesn't mean that it won't happen if it needs to. But I think we all understand your position on the GPL. Now that you've had a chance to express it, I hope we can end this thread. If there are still parties that are interested in discussing it further, I'd like to suggest that it be taken off-line. Larry -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ . -- 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/