multiple cygwin installs

Igor Peshansky pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu
Fri Mar 30 13:22:00 GMT 2007


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
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