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 To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Jani Tiainen Subject: Re: http://rateless.com/ GPL violation? Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 12:54:32 +0300 Lines: 23 Message-ID: References: <20041021175912.GA26547@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <20041021180229.GA26609@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 195.236.144.25 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (Windows/20040913) In-Reply-To: <20041021180229.GA26609@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> X-IsSubscribed: yes Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 01:59:12PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: > >>Does anyone know if there is source code available for the binary >>downloads from ? >> >>I've sent a message requesting that they provide source code for their >>programs but it seems like this is YA case of someone assuming that they >>get to use cygwin without paying attention to the cygwin license? > > > Ah. I see the sources will be available "shortly". > > I'm looking for the word "shortly" in the GPL now. Hmm. Can't seem to > find it... And if you look their "Rateless Public License", it violates licence of GPL that permits modifiction, selling etc. as far as sources are provided for further modifications. -- Jani Tiainen -- 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/