RE: Debug of Test 15 (cgf input needed)

["Robert Collins" <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Suhaib Siddiqi [mailto:ssiddiqi@inspirepharm.com]
> Sent: Monday, April 09, 2001 8:46 AM
> Cc: 'cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com '
> Subject: RE: Debug of Test 15 (cgf input needed)
> 
> 
>  
> XFree sources are not GPL'ed but are available from Cygwin/XFree86 FTP
> server.  Read the URL please how to download sources.  There 
> is no setup.exe
> at present.  The binaries are under GPL because they link to 
> Cygwin1.dll,

The binaries are not under the GPL. If they were, the source would be
under GPL as well. Redhat grants an exception for software that is under
a open source licence such as XFree86 so that they do not need to be
GPL'd.

> therefore sources are available, but sources itself are under 
> X COnsortium
> license, that means you do whatever you can, if you can 
> compile it without
> linking to Cygwin1.dll, then your binaries are under X 
> Consortium License
> too.

If your source is under the X licence, you can link to cygwin1.dll
withouth being infected. (or at least this is what I understand from
Corinna's comments last week).

Rob

> 
> Suhaib
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Enoch Wu
> To: Christopher Faylor
> Cc: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> Sent: 4/8/2001 6:43 PM
> Subject: Re: Debug of Test 15 (cgf input needed)
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> On Sun, Apr 08, 2001 at 02:58:13PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> > On Sat, Apr 07, 2001 at 09:44:24PM -0700, Enoch Wu wrote:
> > >You do need to get the sources and compile them with -g and with
> > >optimizer -O turned off.  Edit the makefile to disable all strip
> > >commands.
> > 
> > There are no strip commands in the cygwin DLL makefile.
> > 
> > >Sometimes sources are not easy to get.  Chris, is there a 
> turf issue?
> > 
> > Huh?  I have no idea what you're asking.
> > 
> > What does "sources are not easy to get" mean?  AFAIK, you should be
> able
> > to either download snapshot sources or (preferred) check out the
> sources
> > via cvs.
> 
> Chris, I am over generalizing. I found the XFree86 sources everywhere.
> 
> I was thinking about the setup.exe listing -- there are many 
> "n/a" when
> I 
> clicked the "download the source files". I'm under the impression that
> if
> they are GPL'ed, then the C source files are available for anyone who
> wants
> to enhance them and release them in the same GPL spirit.
> 
> EW
> 
> > 
> > Instructions for checking out the sources via CVS are at the obvious
> > place.
> > 
> > cgf
> > 
>