X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org From: "Dave Korn" To: "'Cygwin List'" Subject: RE: Your Upload.com Submission Has Been Accepted Date: Sun, 9 Apr 2006 03:36:05 +0100 Message-ID: <00c601c65b7e$59f6c7f0$a501a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: 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 On 08 April 2006 01:30, Peter A. Castro wrote: > This is quite strange. It says it was added April 7th, 2006, yet its got > 10 reviews, all dated quite some time before then (version 1.3.22-1 and > 12-Nov-2003) and also lists 173,253 downloads. It also says the > publisher is "Cygnus Solutions". The reviews look legit (well, at least > the talk about things that are true about Cygwin). > > I'm betting this entry was previously cataloged as something else, and > someone very nicely, "corrected" it to match reality (annoying, indeed). I'm betting they've been distributing cygwin/setup for years and have just updated it and that this update somehow triggered off a form letter to the recorded contact address. > Good luck getting it removed. It's CNET.COM, after all... The more important thing is, they've mis-described the license as 'free', when it should be 'gpl'. That needs fixing. cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today.... -- 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/