Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm Sender: cygwin-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 12:17:28 -0500 From: Chris Faylor To: DJ Delorie Cc: creative1 AT bigfoot DOT com, cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Subject: Re: licensing NOT clear for me Message-ID: <19990318121728.B929@cygnus.com> References: <36F12160 DOT 87AE0FC0 AT bigfoot DOT com> <19990318111122 DOT A792 AT cygnus DOT com> <36F12714 DOT 8EDF060A AT bigfoot DOT com> <199903181635 DOT LAA28111 AT envy DOT delorie DOT com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: <199903181635.LAA28111@envy.delorie.com>; from DJ Delorie on Thu, Mar 18, 1999 at 11:35:17AM -0500 On Thu, Mar 18, 1999 at 11:35:17AM -0500, DJ Delorie wrote: > >> You are saying then, that i can include the .dll on the zip on my website >> (www.unionlatina.org/kaosbot) and then just say something like >> If you want the cygwin source go to sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin >> and I don't even need to have the sources on the webserver? > >As I explained in my other email, I wouldn't recommend this because >you can't guarantee you're complying with the GPL if you do this. Here are the appropriate clauses from the GPL: 3. You may copy and distribute the Program (or a work based on it, under Section 2) in object code or executable form under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above provided that you also do one of the following: a) Accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable source code, which must be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or, b) Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three years, to give any third party, for a charge no more than your cost of physically performing source distribution, a complete machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code, to be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or, c) Accompany it with the information you received as to the offer to distribute corresponding source code. (This alternative is allowed only for noncommercial distribution and only if you received the program in object code or executable form with such an offer, in accord with Subsection b above.) From the above, it seems to me that b) would be feasible for source distributions on the web, unless "written offer" means something more esoteric than actually including those words in a README. What this means to me is that if someone asks for the sources you can say, "Sure. Give me a week to set things up for you on my web/ftp site and provide me with a $xx processing fee. Alternatively, if you'd like to get the latest copy of cygwin you can go to http://sourceware.cygus.com/cygwin/. Bear in mind that this copy may not be the one that I used to build my program but it probably will work just fine for you. Otherwise, please let me know if you'd like me to provide the sources on my ftp/web site." cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com