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 Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 09:45:33 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: jclark AT thinstall DOT com Cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Source code for binaries offered at http://thinstall.com/ ? Message-ID: <20030728134533.GA32342@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: jclark AT thinstall DOT com, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Hi, I manage the cygwin project (I've cc'ed the project mailing list and the reply-to is set to that list). It has come to my attention that you are offering binaries which use cygwin but you do not seem to be providing any sources for download on your web site. The GPL license requires you to provide the sources of any packages that you distribute. So, sources for gzip, less, bash, the Cygwin DLL, etc. should be available via the same mechanism that you use to provide the binaries. You do need to provide sources for everything you distribute. Just pointing people to other web sites is not sufficient. In fact, it *seems* like the sources for your whole thinstall package may also be necessary since it is bundled with, and appears to use, other GPLed programs. The GPL FAQ is located here: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html It deals with all sorts of questions about distributing binaries and sources. In particular, a frequent response to this type of email from other people distributing binaries without sources is the suggestion of including a pointer to the cygwin/gnu web sites. This is not sufficient and is mentioned here: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#SourceAndBinaryOnDifferentSites I would appreciate your attention to this matter. Thank you, Christopher Faylor Red Hat, Inc. -- 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/