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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
   5 library, available here:
   6   ftp://ftp.rpm.org/pub/rpm/test-4.0.1/popt-1.6.1.tar.gz
   7
   8 A Note on Licenseing:
   9 --------------------------------------
  10 Since this package consists of many small utilities taken
  11 from various sources, there are a mixture of licenses.
  12
  13 Most of these utilities are released under the GPL, but
  14 some were originally public domain but are now GPL, and
  15 others are BSD-no-advert.
  16
  17 Some files were originally BSD+advert (which is bad, and
  18 not GPL compatible).  However, IF the files in question
  19 were part of the official BSD distribution from UCB, then
  20 they have been affirmitively converted from BSD+advert to
  21 BSD-no-advert licensing.  As stated here
  22 <http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.html>:
  23    Note: The advertising clause in the license appearing
  24    on BSD Unix files was officially rescinded by the
  25    Director of the Office of Technology Licensing of the
  26    University of California on July 22 1999. He states
  27    that clause 3 is "hereby deleted in its entirety."
  28
  29 So, files derived from older BSD sources, even if they
  30 still SAY BSD+advert, are now BSD-no-advert.  In
  31 accordance with the wishes of the Director of UC's OTL,
  32 I have modified the licensing terms to BSD-no-advert of
  33 files included in this package that fall under his edict.
  34
  35 What's in this package:
  36 -------------------------------
  37 GPL:
  38  ascii    banner    conv      dump     getclip
  39  last     msgtool   putclip   realpath semstat
  40  semtool  shmtool   utmpdump  lpr      mkshortcut
  41
  42  d2u      dos2unix  u2d       unix2dos
  43
  44 PublicDomain-now-GPL:
  45  namei    ddate
  46
  47 BSD-no-advert:
  48  cal
  49
  50