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RE: multiple cygwin installs
- From: "Dave Korn" <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>
- To: "'zzzzzzzzzzzzz'yaaaawwSSNORRKgrpmh hmkph whuuuh? <goes back to sleep>'" <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 15:20:48 +0100
- Subject: RE: multiple cygwin installs
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On 30 March 2007 14:22, Igor Peshansky wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Mar 2007, Dave Korn wrote:
>
>> On 30 March 2007 10:20, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>
>>> On Mar 30 09:33, Dave Korn wrote:
>>>> On 30 March 2007 08:58, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>
>>>>> Btw., do they provide the source codes for the Cygwin DLL and their
>>>>> tools?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ... because rebuilding their tools from source into your standard
>>>> cygwin install is probably quite a good bet...
>>>
>>> I was actually referring to the licensing implications...
>>
>> Well, in a kind of way, so was I... the licensing implications being
>> "They've gotta give you the source if you ask for it!"[*] Or to put it
>> another way, the licensing implications being "You're free[**] from
>> crippling dependency on the supplier's little quirks".
>>
>> cheers,
>> DaveK
>>
>> [*] - oversimplified for purposes of not having a long discussion to
>> clarify what is best expressed by simply referring to
>> http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html
>> [**] - as in beer.[***]
>> [***] - no, wait a minute. as in speech.[****]
>> [****] - look, i was up hacking on a compiler until 6am.... i'm not
>> entirely sure /what/ i mean...
>
> Which timezone? ;-)
> Igor
The one where it was 6am in the bloody morning! ;-)
cheers,
DaveK
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