X-Git-Url: https://cygwin.com/git/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=d4caff7333db123a9acb71fb0335832dbda3d0ad;hb=960903012b0b5329d6b0165693ceab51725b1747;hp=81ddeab58ded259e9b789cc67c67de919c0b2b22;hpb=53baeb9d2cdf427c50a2c37793ee998dd89bfb0a;p=cygwin-apps%2Fcygutils.git diff --git a/README b/README index 81ddeab..d4caff7 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -1,11 +1,23 @@ This collection started life called the "misc" package, but was renamed to "cygutils" at version 0.9.5. -Many of these utilities require the popt -library, available here: - ftp://ftp.rpm.org/pub/rpm/test-4.0.1/popt-1.6.1.tar.gz +Many of these utilities require the popt library. Others +may require the gettext and iconv libraries (libintl, libiconv). -A Note on Licenseing: +Actually, all of the programs that required gettext have been +removed from this package, as they are now provided by other +packages (usually, the original source package from which they +were once copied into THIS package!). Thus, "last" is now +in the `sysvinit' package, and `cal' (+ many more) are now in +the `util-linux' package. + +However, I've kept the infrastructure for gettext-enabled +programs just because I don't want to have to regenerate it +if ever we add a new utility to this package which requires +gettext functionality. + + +A Note on Licensing: -------------------------------------- Since this package consists of many small utilities taken from various sources, there are a mixture of licenses. @@ -34,18 +46,21 @@ files included in this package that fall under his edict. What's in this package: ------------------------------- -GPL: - ascii banner conv cygstart dump - getclip getopt last lpr mkshortcut - msgtool putclip realpath semstat semtool - shmtool utmpdump +GPLv3+: + ascii dump putclip getclip + conv unix2dos dos2unix d2u u2d + ipck msgtool semstat semtool shmtool + +GPLv2+: + cygstart cygdrop mkshortcut cygicons.dll - d2u dos2unix u2d unix2dos +GPLv2: + banner lpr readshortcut realpath PublicDomain-now-GPL: - namei ddate + BSD-no-advert: - cal col colcrt column readlink rev +