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RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Server Test 22



I think this argument will not lead any where... but let me dig a really old
old back up CD 
which has a README file and if i am not mistaken it mentioned, zlib was same
as in xfree ports.

Suhaib

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:cgf@redhat.com]
> Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2001 5:57 PM
> To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Server Test 22
> 
> 
> On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 05:45:08PM -0400, Suhaib Siddiqi wrote:
> >I think it is ok to cygz.dll.  This argument will not bring much,
> >but I do say it was a bad idea to fork libz.dll from X 
> source last year
> >and stick into contrib.  
> 
> I don't know why you are thinking that this came from X.  You 
> could also
> claim that it came from Java or the Cygwin setup program.  
> Both of those
> use zlib.  Neither of those is the owner or originator of the code.
> 
> cgf
> 


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