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: <00db01c3556b$cfcee410$200aa8c0@thorin> From: "Carlo Florendo" To: References: <20030728131944.GB32000@redhat.com> <3F25330B.3020103@jhuapl.edu> Subject: Re: GPL alert ? http://thinstall.com/unix_tools/ Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 08:53:23 +0800 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 V5.00.2919.6700 > Christopher Faylor wrote: > > >On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 07:52:36AM -0400, Brian.Kelly@Empireblue.com wrote: > > > > > >>Not only that, but this appears to go even further. By essentially > >>"compiling" all these GNU utilities into one executable, there's a > >>violation of the GPL to the extent that the code used to do that does > >>not appear to be "Open Source". Double Whammy here. > >> > >>And by the way - I AM a lawyer. (Member of the Michigan Bar > >>Association in Good Standing). > >> > >> > > > >I noticed that but i was wondering if these were actually cygwin tools. > >Has anyone verified that? They're *the* cygwin tools. I downloaded last week and it link to the source does not appear anywhere (except reference to the cygwin web site which I don't seem to find today.) There's no acknowledgement from cygwin whatsoever. Hmmm...a really flagrant violation of the GPL. Best Regards, Carlo ------ Carlo Florendo Astra Philippines Inc. URL: http://www.hq.astra.ph/resources/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/