X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: Matthew Woehlke Subject: Re: Interference between instances on MS-Windows Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2007 14:31:12 -0500 Lines: 40 Message-ID: References: <014601c7bf14$4ba90e10$2e08a8c0 AT CAM DOT ARTIMI DOT COM> <014f01c7bf1b$b352aab0$2e08a8c0 AT CAM DOT ARTIMI DOT COM> <015d01c7bf21$be3d41a0$2e08a8c0 AT CAM DOT ARTIMI DOT COM> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.12) Gecko/20070509 Thunderbird/1.5.0.12 Mnenhy/0.7.4.0 In-Reply-To: <015d01c7bf21$be3d41a0$2e08a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 Dave Korn wrote: > On 05 July 2007 17:17, Bob McConnell wrote: >> Sending a copy of it to one support tech to >> debug that vendor's library does not constitute distribution, AFAICT. > > Utterly comprehensively wrong. Sorry. Really? "You may convey covered works to others for the sole purpose of having them make modifications exclusively for you, or provide you with facilities for running those works, provided that you comply with the terms of this License in conveying all material for which you do not control copyright. Those thus making or running the covered works for you must do so exclusively on your behalf, under your direction and control, on terms that prohibit them from making any copies of your copyrighted material outside their relationship with you." As I read that, it states that Bob can indeed send someone a copy "for the sole purpose of having them make modifications exclusively for you" and doing so would not cause Bob's modifications to become GPL'd (with the caveat that Bob's changes cannot be distributed by the other party, IOW this is no more a loophole than intra-corporate "distribution"). It isn't clear if sending a private copy under such terms for the purpose of debugging could qualify, but it seems to me one could make an argument for that. Granted, the above text is from GPLv3 however (I didn't check if GPLv2 is similar, although if Bob'd program is "v2 or later" I don't think it matters). (I would TITTLL if it was on gmane :-(, not that Cygwin's LL seems particularly more appropriate than any other Cygwin forum. If anyone does TITTLL, please CC me.) -- Matthew Disadvantage: Bad Puns [-5] You constantly utter puns so egregious as to cause mental distress to anyone hearing them. This can, however, be used to distract enemies. -- 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/