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 X-Envelope-To: Message-ID: <36F24D87.2843A0C3@hotmail.com> Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 14:13:43 +0100 From: John Mullee Organization: Ex Machina Interactive Architects X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Subject: Re: licensing NOT clear for me References: <36F12160 DOT 87AE0FC0 AT bigfoot DOT com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > Hi there! > I make my binaries available to the public but: > Can I include the cygwin1.dll on the .zip file??? > It seems i have to include the source code of the > library, but that would make a 20 megas cygwin > source (more than 20 times the actual program). > > Can someone help? > I consider stupid to include 20 megas for a simple > program. Maybe I am wrong, but that is why > I asked and nobody seems to know the answer. > Joaquin Grech (I'm sure i'll be corrected if i'm wrong here.. :) The issue is simply: - if you distribute on cdrom, include the cywin sources (no problem, right?) - if you distribute on floppy, include the cywin sources (aargh!) - if you distribute via http/ftp, place the cygwin sources on the same site permitting users who _chose_ to do so to get the relevant sources. You could make it awkward by splitting the files into 1MB lumps and use some strange compression-format, if you wanted to discourage unnecessary dowloads. You _don't_ have to wrap _all_ the sources up in the same archive. They can be separately-downloadable files. I'm not aware of any separate source archive which produces _only_ the dll and not the tools; such an archive, if you created it, would both fulfil GPL requirements and be easier to fit on some floppies. FWIW, the cdk/src/winsup directory - i.e. the sources for the cygwin dll - zip into about 700 kb. (one floppy disk!) Now, which bit don't you understand ? 8) john -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com