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Stephen Bennett wrote:
>> Um, and assuming that we found a list of packages that had no licenses,
>> and a list of packages with licenses that we can't accept, is there any
>> way to supply setup with a pre-defined list of packages to include or
>> exclude?  Or would everyone installing Cygwin at our company have to
>> read through a list of disallowed-by-our-company packages and deselect
>> each one (after first clicking on All)?
> 
> If you're in search of a centralised approach, it's a fairly easy exercise
> to run your own internal mirror, containing only those packages that you've
> verified as acceptable. We do just that here for different reasons -- we
> need to patch certain packages for various reasons.
> 
> Once that has been set up, then everyone can simply install from there and
> be sure that they're not getting any packages with legal problems. You'd
> still need someone to do that checking in the first place, though.

Good suggestion, that'd work.  Thanks!

luke

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