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Re: distributing CygWin on a CD with a textbook: how to acknowloedge
On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 04:09:12PM +0100, Giovanni Organtini wrote:
>Thanks a lot. For sure we will fix the "spelling" of Cygwin.
>
>For what concern the distribution it's ok, so we will not distribute
>it on the CD, however let me explain why and how we would like to do
>so. Maybe it can make it clear to other people.
>
>We know about the fact that GPL requires distributing the source code,
>however it is not forbidden to distribute them in a different way
>(i.e. doanloadable from a web page). So this was our original
>intention.
Actually, if you are distributing the binaries via CD, it is "forbidden"
to only distribute the source code on a web site. You really do have to
distribute the sources with the binaries.
It would probably be instructive to read the GPL FAQ at
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html if you haven't already, specfically:
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#DistributeWithSourceOnInternet