X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org X-Mail-Handler: MailHop Outbound by DynDNS X-Report-Abuse-To: abuse AT dyndns DOT com (see http://www.dyndns.com/services/mailhop/outbound_abuse.html for abuse reporting information) X-MHO-User: U2FsdGVkX1/JE+zQqyo+c0DP7JaSpJcn Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 13:07:05 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Trusted Software Vendor Message-ID: <20120612170705.GA11738@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <20120608184641 DOT GA13771 AT ednor DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> <4FD32DC5 DOT 10703 AT gmail DOT com> <20120609155700 DOT GA21988 AT ednor DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> <4FD73CC9 DOT 3070501 AT etr-usa DOT com> <20120612131608 DOT GA18920 AT ednor DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> <00ab01cd48aa$31047bb0$930d7310$@motionview3d.com> <4FD760F0 DOT 4050009 AT redhat DOT com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4FD760F0.4050009@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) 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 On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 09:32:00AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: >On 06/12/2012 09:12 AM, Nick Lowe wrote: >> http://cygwin.com/ >> >> "The Cygwin DLL and utilities are Copyright ? 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, >> 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 Red Hat, Inc" > >Yes, that's true for the cygwin1.dll. But it's not all the executables >available from cygwin.com. Even among the packages I help maintain (on >my own time, and not on Red Hat's time, I might add), ls.exe is >copyright FSF; diffstat.exe is copyright Thomas E. Dickey; git.exe is >copyright by many different individuals; etc., and none of these are >owned or run by Red Hat. That is, Red Hat cannot make blanket >operations on executables, just because cygwin.com ships them, because >Red Hat is not the copyright holder on the majority of the binaries >bundled in the cygwin distribution, nor even the entity that compiled >the binaries in the first place. Most of what you get from cygwin is >the effort of individual contributors, while only a few things like >cygwin1.dll are directly owned by Red Hat. Thanks, Eric, for an important clarification. cgf -- 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