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 Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 23:17:47 -0600 From: Joshua Daniel Franklin To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Possible GPL Violation Message-ID: <20030327051747.GA3452@world-gov> References: <02ae01c2f411$92568400$cf6d86d9@ellixia> <02b401c2f411$ec92cbe0$cf6d86d9@ellixia> <20030327035522.GA16115@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030327035522.GA16115@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 10:55:22PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 03:35:33AM -0000, Elfyn McBratney wrote: > >>I am sending you this e-mail because I was given your URL in passing, > >>and found that you are distributing Cygwin amongst other Cygwin-linked > >>utilities , but there is no URL > >>for the corresponding source code. > >> > >>I see mentions of the GPL on your site, so I'm guessing you are aware > >>that you are *required* by the GPL to distribute source code for such > >>utilities? > > > >Apologies to everyone for the imminent flaming. > > That's ok. I'm giving you another gold star for doing this despite the > possibility of someone calling you names, suggesting that you're wasting > your time, and reminding you that you're not a lawyer and so have no > right to an opinion. That takes some courage. While I agree, doesn't it make more sense to contact people off-list first? If this was gpl@gnu.org or something I'd understand, but really other than us being fellow Cygwin users what does it have to do with the cygwin@ list? -- 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/