Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: "Gary R. Van Sickle" To: Subject: RE: Is Cygwin legal under Windows XP? Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 18:30:59 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal In-reply-to: <3CC21265.9785.87782974@localhost> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 > The following excerpt is from Brian Livingston's 'Windows Manager' > column, 18Mar2002: > http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/02/03/18/020318oplivingston.xml > > I'm wondering if, in addition to possibly forbidding the use of VNC, > this might also forbid installing Cygwin on WinXP and then using a > remote connection to the WinXP PC with Cygwin's telnetd, rlogind, > rshd, sshd or any X-Windows type of interface, unless you also have > a WinXP license for the computer at the other end of the connection. > > I know this might be considered OT, but I thought it was worth > raising the issue. > The following excerpt is from a speech delivered by John Patrick Henry to the Second Virginia Convention, convened at St. John's Church in Richmond, on March 23, 1775: "Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me Cygwin or give me death!" To the best of my recollection anyway. -- Gary R. Van Sickle Brewer. Patriot. "The war is inevitable--and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come." -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/