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1 | This collection started life called the "misc" package, |
2 | but was renamed to "cygutils" at version 0.9.5. | |
3 | ||
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4 | Many of these utilities require the popt library. Others |
5 | may require the gettext and iconv libraries (libintl, libiconv). | |
6 | ||
7 | Actually, all of the programs that required gettext have been | |
8 | removed from this package, as they are now provided by other | |
9 | packages (usually, the original source package from which they | |
10 | were once copied into THIS package!). Thus, "last" is now | |
11 | in the `sysvinit' package, and `cal' (+ many more) are now in | |
12 | the `util-linux' package. | |
13 | ||
14 | However, I've kept the infrastructure for gettext-enabled | |
15 | programs just because I don't want to have to regenerate it | |
16 | if ever we add a new utility to this package which requires | |
17 | gettext functionality. | |
18 | ||
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23348f9f | 20 | A Note on Licensing: |
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21 | -------------------------------------- |
22 | Since this package consists of many small utilities taken | |
23 | from various sources, there are a mixture of licenses. | |
24 | ||
25 | Most of these utilities are released under the GPL, but | |
26 | some were originally public domain but are now GPL, and | |
27 | others are BSD-no-advert. | |
28 | ||
29 | Some files were originally BSD+advert (which is bad, and | |
30 | not GPL compatible). However, IF the files in question | |
31 | were part of the official BSD distribution from UCB, then | |
32 | they have been affirmitively converted from BSD+advert to | |
33 | BSD-no-advert licensing. As stated here | |
34 | <http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.html>: | |
35 | Note: The advertising clause in the license appearing | |
36 | on BSD Unix files was officially rescinded by the | |
37 | Director of the Office of Technology Licensing of the | |
38 | University of California on July 22 1999. He states | |
39 | that clause 3 is "hereby deleted in its entirety." | |
40 | ||
41 | So, files derived from older BSD sources, even if they | |
42 | still SAY BSD+advert, are now BSD-no-advert. In | |
43 | accordance with the wishes of the Director of UC's OTL, | |
44 | I have modified the licensing terms to BSD-no-advert of | |
45 | files included in this package that fall under his edict. | |
46 | ||
47 | What's in this package: | |
48 | ------------------------------- | |
49 | GPL: | |
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50 | ascii banner cygstart dump getclip |
51 | lpr mkshortcut putclip readshortcut realpath | |
52 | ||
53 | ipck msgtool semstat semtool shmtool | |
54 | conv unix2dos dos2unix d2u u2d | |
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56 | cygicons.dll |
57 | ||
d4a28ab0 | 58 | PublicDomain-now-GPL: |
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60 | |
61 | BSD-no-advert: | |
76e235a1 | 62 | <none> |
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