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 Message-ID: <404A15E9.4080004@zara.6.isreserved.com> Date: Sun, 07 Mar 2004 01:18:17 +0700 From: David Garamond User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031208 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Can ipc-daemon2 put its files in directory other than /tmp? References: <4049534D DOT 3060406 AT zara DOT 6 DOT isreserved DOT com> <20040306043243 DOT GA4428 AT redhat DOT com> <4049C5C0 DOT 5010202 AT zara DOT 6 DOT isreserved DOT com> <20040306153925 DOT GA8301 AT redhat DOT com> In-Reply-To: <20040306153925.GA8301@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Christopher Faylor wrote: >>>Actually, hopefully, you are bunding postgresql + cygwin + whatever other >>>binaries + *the sources to same* since this is a GPLed project, meaning >>>that you have to provide sources for the binaries that you distribute >>>as per the GPL. >> >>No source code is modified/recompiled. I'm just providing a convenience >>packaging. COPYING + the BSD license (for Postgres) is included, plus >>I'm informing in the README that Cygwin is GPL'ed, and to get the source >>one should go to http://www.cygwin.com/. I believe that is sufficient? >>(since no source code is modified anyway). > > Unfortunately, no, it's not sufficient. The GPL doesn't have a "no > source code is modified" clause. For the cygwin DLL, and any of the > utilities that come with it, you have to adhere to the GPL which > means that the source code has to be provided. I see. I'll provide the source code on my own website then, link to the URL and not http://www.cygwin.com/, but does not include it in the .zip distribution, to keep the .zip smaller. That should cover the "from the same place" requirement. Thanks, -- dave -- 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/