X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4AC1EDCF.8090300@cisra.canon.com.au> Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 21:21:51 +1000 From: Luke Kendall User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (X11/20090302) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Four license questions that affect commercial use of Cygwin References: <4AC1D0E4.3030908@cisra.canon.com.au> <20090929094557.GD7193@calimero.vinschen.de> <4AC1E226.10403@cisra.canon.com.au> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-TSM-Policy: FAIL X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 Stephen Bennett wrote: >> Um, and assuming that we found a list of packages that had no licenses, >> and a list of packages with licenses that we can't accept, is there any >> way to supply setup with a pre-defined list of packages to include or >> exclude? Or would everyone installing Cygwin at our company have to >> read through a list of disallowed-by-our-company packages and deselect >> each one (after first clicking on All)? > > If you're in search of a centralised approach, it's a fairly easy exercise > to run your own internal mirror, containing only those packages that you've > verified as acceptable. We do just that here for different reasons -- we > need to patch certain packages for various reasons. > > Once that has been set up, then everyone can simply install from there and > be sure that they're not getting any packages with legal problems. You'd > still need someone to do that checking in the first place, though. Good suggestion, that'd work. Thanks! luke > Accelrys Limited (http://accelrys.com) > Registered office: 334 Cambridge Science Park, Cambridge, CB4 0WN, UK > Registered in England: 2326316 > -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple