X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org From: Bengt Larsson To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Mg3a - a version of Mg2a developed on Cygwin Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 20:36:45 +0100 Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: References: <35i9m6pt07r66fib882etg5tgirkr413co AT 4ax DOT com> <0105D5C1E0353146B1B222348B0411A209DAA0FF98 AT NIHMLBX02 DOT nih DOT gov> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 Andrew Schulman wrote: >> Why not ITP it as an official package? > >It will need a license. Right now there's no license information anywhere >in the tarball AFAICT. > >Is the code in Mg3a taken from Emacs? If so, you need to include the GPL >in your tarball. No, it was taken from Mg2a, which was public domain. See the README in the orig/ directory. The orig directory is referred to in the README in the source directory. README: "The original README and documents are in orig/. The extensions as well as the original, with some exceptions mentioned in the original README, are in the public domain. " orig/README: "Mg 2a README May 15, 1988 Mg (mg) is a Public Domain EMACS style editor." This is perhaps not perfect disclosure, but it is there. (I did miss wcwidth.c, but it says: " * Markus Kuhn -- 2007-05-26 (Unicode 5.0) * * Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software * for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted. The author * disclaims all warranties with regard to this software. " So I think I'm in the clear. Since the original was public domain I haven't wanted to think about doing it differently with my code; it makes my head hurt. I do know what public domain means, and should someone go ahead and make insane amount of money on this I will be a) insanely proud, b) take it as a learning experience and c) be sure to extract a lot of money next time. I think public domain is interesting because anyone can do anything. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple