X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 15:24:33 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: FAQ suggestion Message-ID: <20080319142431.GG19345@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20080318232317.GA22446@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <47E05D4D.8000000@byu.net> <20080319040517.GD22446@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <20080319042138.GF22446@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: 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 Mar 18 21:47, Dan Kegel wrote: > --- snip --- > > 9. Deploying Cygwin > > 9.1 I want to bundle Cygwin with a product, and ship it to customer > sites. How can I do this without conflicting with any Cygwin > installed by the user? > > A. Third party developers who wish to use Cygwin should check if > there is a version of cygwin installed and use the installed > version if it is newer, or conditionally upgrade if it is not. > (If you write a tool to make this easy, consider contributing > it to cygwin for others to use.) > > 9.2 Can I bundle Cygwin with my product for free? > > A. Only if you comply with Cygwin's license very carefully. > If you choose to distribute cygwin1.dll, you must also > distribute the exact source code used to build that copy of cygwin1.dll. > If you ship applications that link with cygwin1.dll, > you must either provide those applications' source code under a > GPL-compatible license, *or* purchase a cygwin license from Red Hat. > > 9.3. Can I install a private version of cygwin that doesn't conflict > with the system cygwin (in the same way that multiple versions > of Wine can coexist)? > > A. The Cygwin maintainers will resist any suggestion to support > this, no matter how sensible it might sound to you, because > they feel strongly that the only supportable situation is > for everybody to use the same cygwin instance, and for it > to be as up to date as possible. > > 9.4. But doesn't that mean that if some application installs > an older Cygwin library than my system had, my application will break? > > A. Yes. If you run into such an application, uninstall it, > point the author to this FAQ, and try to get them to follow > the cygwin deployment rules. > > --- snip --- > > Is that getting closer? That's quite close, especially the answer to 9.3 :) Care to create a matching docbook entry for the FAQ? Thanks, Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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/