Compliance with the GPL (cygwin)
Herbert Valerio Riedel
hvr@hvrlab.org
Sat Apr 13 02:26:00 GMT 2002
On Sat, 2002-04-13 at 01:46, Charles Wilson wrote:
> License compliance for programs which use cygwin.
> VCDImager (cygiwin-1.3.6)
[..]
> Note that it's very easy for each of these projects to comply with
> cygwin's license (the GPL): just
> 1) make their own source available (true already, for most of them)
ftp://ftp.vcdimager.org/pub/vcdimager/
> 2) put a tarball of the (appropriate) cygwin DLL source code on
> their ftp site with their other downloads,
ftp://ftp.vcdimager.org/pub/cygwin/
> 3) ditto for other cygwin-linked libraries (zlib, libxml, libjpeg)
> if applicable
will follow as soon as I get time to
> 4) mention the availability of the source code for libraries
> used to create their windows port somewhere on their
> webpage (not strictly necessary, but what's the point of
> 1 -- 3 if you don't advertise it?)
http://www.vcdimager.org/software.phtml
> 5) A plug for the cygwin project itself (http://www.cygwin.com)
> would be nice, but definitely not necessary for license compliance.
http://www.vcdimager.org/software.phtml
> To dampen the inevitable arguments about the GPL:
[..]
> VCDImager
> which contains cygwin1.dll-1.3.6, cygz.dll, and cygxml-2.dll
> VCDImager provides the src for cygwin, but not
> zlib or xml. (Actually, they provide LOTS of different
> src tarballs -- probably more than they need to -- but
> all for various versions of cygwin, not zlib/xml.
>
> So, to sum up:
>
> VCDImager project: seems mostly compliant; need a reminder to
> include also OTHER source code (zlib, libxml)
[..]
will do so;
btw, I do this just for the unstable series; as soon as the official
stable series come out, they'll lack the .dll's
btw2: libxml2 was provided in source, I just happen to have deleted it
by accident
ps: just wondering, which personal interest do you have, that others
(we) comply to the terms? -- plz don't see this question as personal
attack or something alike.
regards,
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