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Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2000 12:08:32 -0800
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So I guess the [licensing] question is:  is the Berkeley license in the
file (below) compatible with cygwin's?

,
John

DJ Delorie wrote:

> You can't just copy files from other places into cygwin; there are
> licensing issues.  If you could document the needed constants in a
> source-independent way (or point to a spec that says what they should
> be), perhaps someone else could create a new sysexits.h just for
> Cygwin that is free of licensing restrictions.
>
> Otherwise, I see no philisophical problem with adding that
> functionality to cygwin.

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