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From: "Parker, Ron" <rdparker AT butlermfg DOT com>
To: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>, rdparker AT butlermfg DOT com
Cc: cygwin-developers AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
Subject: RE: setup: built-in tar
Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 12:33:50 -0500
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> * tar and gzip are GPL; we have to ship the sources for them with
>   every setup.exe.

If I remember my GPL correctly all you have to do is make the sources
available.  Posting them on the same server in a reasonably conspicuous
location meets this requirement.

> We are creating cygwin, and we are supporting it.  If the user does
> something different and we break, whose fault is it?  I'd rather that
> setup guarantee a valid installation and let the user muck with it
> afterwards, than let setup take a chance with a random user
> configuration.

Just something to think about, how do we deal with their mucking for updates
via "setup -u"?

Thanks for taking the time to answer my questions, you have many good points
that I snipped for reply brevity.  I always appreciate a well thought out
solution.  IMO this is the kind of discussion that this list was designed
for.

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