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Date: Sun, 07 Mar 2004 01:18:17 +0700
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Subject: Re: Can ipc-daemon2 put its files in directory other than /tmp?
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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

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