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RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Server Test 22
- To: "'cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com'" <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Subject: RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Server Test 22
- From: Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>
- Date: Thu, 3 May 2001 18:02:21 -0400
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
>