X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <43B819F8.1060302@cygwin.com> Date: Sun, 01 Jan 2006 13:05:44 -0500 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050929 Thunderbird/1.0.7 Fedora/1.0.7-1.1.fc4 Mnenhy/0.7.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com CC: vherva@vianova.fi Subject: Re: http://www.dll-files.com offers cygwin1.dll, no sources References: <20060101143641.GF23057@vianova.fi> <43B80490.8000305@sh.cvut.cz> In-Reply-To: <43B80490.8000305@sh.cvut.cz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 Reformatted top-post... Václav Haisman wrote: > Ville Herva wrote: > >> http://www.dll-files.com/dllindex/index-c.shtml >> >> The same old story, if anybody's interested. >> >> Tried to email them via the contact form - haven't heard back. > They seem to be offering just unmodified binary. There is imho nothing > wrong with that > > Vaclav Haisman > > They are distributing the DLL without sources; that's a violation of the GPL. They could only get an exemption using the Red Hat buy-out license option but based on dll-files site disclaimer I would be very surprised to find out they have such a license. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- 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/