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From: Sinisa Milivojevic <sinisa AT mysql DOT com>
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Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 18:49:41 +0200
To: robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au
Cc: cygwin-apps AT cygwin DOT com, erickson AT mufassa DOT com
Subject: Re: mysql server out of the list
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Christopher Faylor writes:
> On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 04:40:24PM +0200, Sinisa Milivojevic wrote:
> >Robert Collins writes:
> >>
> >> They are distributing a cygwin linked .exe without cygwin1.dll, and
> >> without cygwin sources. As I understood from prior cygwin@ discussion,
> >> this was an issue.
> >
> >We are not distributing anything. We do not sell CD-ROM's or anything
> >similar.
> >
> >We just let people download from our site whatever they wish.
> 
> "Distributing" is not a commercial term.  If you aren't providing a
> version of the cygwin DLL, then there is no problem.  If you are
> then there is a problem.
> 
> cgf
> 

We are now preparing new mysqlc.exe with latest cygwin, for which I
heard that it can be built statically.

Next, 99.99 %  of our Windows users download just binaries. Those do
not include even our source code. Should they include CygWin source
code ?? Why ?? What would 99.99 % of Windoze users, completely
illiterate with C / C++ do with that source code ??

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