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 Reply-To: "Al Slater" From: "Al Slater" To: Subject: RE: GPL alert ? http://thinstall.com/unix_tools/ Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 14:31:25 +0100 Organization: Stanton Consultancy Ltd Message-ID: <00c001c3550c$8b85dc00$458c0ca4@pavilion> 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: <20030728131944.GB32000@redhat.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Importance: Normal X-Spam-Processed: scluk.com, Mon, 28 Jul 2003 14:26:19 +0100 (not processed: message from valid local sender) X-MDRemoteIP: 164.12.140.69 X-Return-Path: al DOT slater AT scluk DOT com X-MDaemon-Deliver-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com I downloaded the tools and ran them. I typed uname -a and received an error message about a missing export in Cygwin1.dll, so the answer is yes. Al > -----Original Message----- > From: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com > [mailto:cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com] On Behalf Of Christopher Faylor > Sent: Monday, July 28, 2003 2:20 PM > To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com > Subject: Re: GPL alert ? http://thinstall.com/unix_tools/ > > > On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 07:52:36AM -0400, > Brian DOT Kelly AT Empireblue DOT com wrote: > >Not only that, but this appears to go even further. By essentially > >"compiling" all these GNU utilities into one executable, there's a > >violation of the GPL to the extent that the code used to do > that does > >not appear to be "Open Source". Double Whammy here. > > > >And by the way - I AM a lawyer. (Member of the Michigan Bar > >Association in Good Standing). > > I noticed that but i was wondering if these were actually > cygwin tools. Has anyone verified that? > > cgf > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/