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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
   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
  19
  20 A Note on Licensing:
  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  36    on BSD Unix files was officially rescinded by the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 GPLv3+:
  50  banner     cygdrop       cygicons.dll   cygstart    dump
  51  lpr        mkshortcut    readshortcut   winln
  52
  53  Clipboard:
  54  putclip   getclip
  55
  56  Line Ending Conversion:
  57  conv
  58
  59  IPC:
  60  ipck      msgtool    semstat       semtool         shmtool
  61
  62 GPLv2:
  63  <none>
  64
  65 PublicDomain-now-GPL:
  66  <none>
  67
  68 BSD-no-advert:
  69  <none>
  70
  71