X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 10:10:39 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Attn: cygport, openssh, and exim/cron maintainers [Was: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: csih-0.1.3-1] Message-ID: <20080408081039.GT23852@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <47F46137.5020008@cwilson.fastmail.fm> <20080403085527.GL4468@calimero.vinschen.de> <20080407152955.GQ23852@calimero.vinschen.de> <47FAC142.6040508@cwilson.fastmail.fm> <47FAC7DD.2050402@cwilson.fastmail.fm> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <47FAC7DD.2050402@cwilson.fastmail.fm> 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 Apr 7 21:18, Charles Wilson wrote: > I'm trying to be explicit about licensing in csih for the next release. I > realize it's a little silly to use the GPL on a script (binary == source, > right?), but it may be necessary because part of it is derived from > cygport, which is GPLv3. > > csih (the script part) has been derived from a number of sources: > > # ssh-host-config Copyright 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 Red Hat Inc. > # part of the Cygwin port of OpenSSH > (no explicit licensing) It's implicitely BSD licensed due to it's nature to be part of the OpenSSH source tree. I will stick to this notion for the ssh-host-config and ssh-user-config script. > # cygport Copyright (C) 2006, 2007 Yaakov Selkowitz > # GPL v3 > (mostly the messaging functions: csih_inform, csih_error, etc) > > # exim-config Copyright Pierre A. Humblet, 2003-2007. > # cron-config Copyright Pierre A. Humblet, 2003-2007. > (no explicit licensing) >[...] > Can I use the MIT/X license for the portions of > cygwin-service-installation-helper.sh that were derived from the config > script(s) under your control? The MIT license is fine with me. 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/