glimpse not OSD compatible (Was: [UPDATE] Pending package status (11 Jul 2003))

[Hack Kampbjorn]

elfyn@cygwin.com wrote:
> @ glimpse
> 
> date   : 02 Jun 2003
> version: 4.17.4-1
> status : on hold
> notes  : http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2003-06/msg00010.html
>          http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2003-06/msg00013.html
>          http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2003-06/msg00014.html
>          http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2003-06/msg00238.html
>          http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2003-06/msg00243.html
> votes  : 3 (Christopher, Gerrit and Joe)
> url    : http://www.tierra.dyndns.org:81/cygwin/chase/chase-0.5-1-src.tar.bz2
>          http://www.tierra.dyndns.org:81/cygwin/chase/chase-0.5-1.tar.bz2
>          http://www.tierra.dyndns.org:81/cygwin/chase/setup.hint
> 

Elfyn McBratney wrote in http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2003-06/msg00222.html
 > I'm wondering.. Will it conflict if their license isn't GPL or OSD compatible?
 > Regarding linking it with Cygwin and thus automatically making this
 > distribution of glimpse GPL'd?


Looking at http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition_plain.html it seems not to 
be an OSD compatible license:
	1. Free Redistribution

	The license shall not restrict any party from selling or giving away the 
software as a component of an aggregate software distribution containing 
programs from several different sources. The license shall not require a 
royalty or other fee for such sale.

So we have no exemption from the GPL for the cygwin stub in the exe files.

I think we should add a comment on the packaging page that only OSD compatible 
packages can become part of the cygwin distribution.

-- 
Med venlig hilsen / Kind regards

Hack Kampbjørn