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Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 12:11:00 -0500
From: Charles Wilson <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>
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To: sinisa AT mysql DOT com
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Subject: Re: mysql server out of the list
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Sinisa Milivojevic wrote:


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


Nope, not true.


> 
> 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 ??


It doesn't have to be bundled in the same download.  If you provide the 
cygwin DLL, then just ALSO put a tarball of the sources TO THAT VERSION 
of the DLL on your website, and a link that says "click here for the 
sources to the cygwin dll".

That's it.

(Of course, if your executable is linked to the cygwin DLL, then you 
must provide the sources to your executable regardless of whether you 
distribute the cygwin DLL itself.  But you already do that, so you're 
okay there.

--Chuck