X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-10.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_PGP_SIGNED,KHOP_RCVD_UNTRUST,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_W,SPF_HELO_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4FD760F0.4050009@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 09:32:00 -0600 From: Eric Blake User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120430 Thunderbird/12.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Trusted Software Vendor References: <20120608184641.GA13771@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <4FD32DC5.10703@gmail.com> <20120609155700.GA21988@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <4FD73CC9.3070501@etr-usa.com> <20120612131608.GA18920@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <00ab01cd48aa$31047bb0$930d7310$@motionview3d.com> In-Reply-To: OpenPGP: url=http://people.redhat.com/eblake/eblake.gpg Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig5B45560CB987A4FF40137347" 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 --------------enig5B45560CB987A4FF40137347 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 06/12/2012 09:12 AM, Nick Lowe wrote: > http://cygwin.com/ >=20 > "The Cygwin DLL and utilities are Copyright =A9 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, > 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 Red Hat, Inc" Yes, that's true for the cygwin1.dll. But it's not all the executables available from cygwin.com. Even among the packages I help maintain (on my own time, and not on Red Hat's time, I might add), ls.exe is copyright FSF; diffstat.exe is copyright Thomas E. Dickey; git.exe is copyright by many different individuals; etc., and none of these are owned or run by Red Hat. That is, Red Hat cannot make blanket operations on executables, just because cygwin.com ships them, because Red Hat is not the copyright holder on the majority of the binaries bundled in the cygwin distribution, nor even the entity that compiled the binaries in the first place. Most of what you get from cygwin is the effort of individual contributors, while only a few things like cygwin1.dll are directly owned by Red Hat. --=20 Eric Blake eblake@redhat.com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org --------------enig5B45560CB987A4FF40137347 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Public key at http://people.redhat.com/eblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJP12DxAAoJEKeha0olJ0NqE8kH/3rgqbpkO3ERZyNAIb+3pnxl /gIVDGmGX6UxpfWePylfAXd8q8CoXn1Jh1ZfIhvpta6z37mvKjlAv0m0ZdO2uSpR tbgUmuilRmZNIMuaCNoSClVEPbMNSEpm/kJyRF52VikZU5TZdR2o75rrgn5MDLUM Kia+YjpREcR1a5cFn9ycrXAivn237XhSVN9yiLhWm7YCEnybbFw7MKQfQb6AXtoD mWs7lnzbevI7vPWafUxPZ1TYF9eI2ob1NKgE+xC9dBAk3Ti2zsIZs8BwOnObPkC+ yqrpOlb0cSrqbWfhygkMh25ScvIOUa1DLTbUo/i1Pv591S/bd5YOfBCDo57ii2Y= =gri0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig5B45560CB987A4FF40137347--