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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  24    on BSD Unix files was officially rescinded by the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     cygstart  dump
  39  getclip  getopt   last     lpr       mkshortcut
  40  msgtool  putclip  realpath semstat   semtool
  41  shmtool  utmpdump
  42
  43  d2u      dos2unix  u2d       unix2dos
  44
  45 PublicDomain-now-GPL:
  46  namei    ddate
  47
  48 BSD-no-advert:
  49  cal    col  readlink  rev
  50
  51