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 X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.localdomain: ronald owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 10:26:16 +0200 (CEST) From: Ronald Landheer-Cieslak X-X-Sender: ronald@localhost.localdomain To: Andrew Markebo cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Copy to a CD and distribute to students In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Mon, 7 Apr 2003, Andrew Markebo wrote: > / Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: > | On Mon, 7 Apr 2003, nuno Cerqueira wrote: > |> I would like to ask if there is any problem making the download of > |> Cygwin packages to a CD and then distribute to students. > | No, as long as you include the sources as required by GPL. > The source isn't needed to be provided until asked for, so it doesn't > need to be included on the cd's, as long as he can hand it out if the > students asks. And keeps it around for three years.. The GPL doesn't require you to give the source, I stand corrected, you are right. The GPL *does* require you to be able to give them for a period of three years if you don't give them directly - which I think may not be all that practical for the original poster. > And here.. it is not enough to be able to point the students to the > cygwin web, you need to have it on your own CD/HD/paper.. whatever. In deed, so you might as well put it on the same CD and save yourself the trouble of having a master source CD around for three years. rlc -- 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/