Allowing EASY install of thirtd party software (RE: Two GPL clarifications)
Robert Collins
rbcollins@cygwin.com
Sun Mar 30 13:44:00 GMT 2003
On Sun, 2003-03-30 at 08:15, Hannu E K Nevalainen (garbage mail) wrote:
> If I have "analyzed" things correctly lately;
> most of the GPL violations are done in this situation:
>
> 1) Person "P" writes/ports some nice software using cygwin.
> 2) P picks out required parts of cygwin runtime objects
> and builds a package that is fast and easy to install.
> 3) P puts the package on a webpage.
>
> Maybe the GPL-violation-warning should be accompanied with a pointer
> to an easy-to-follow instruction on the use of a custom setup.ini
>
> As I've had no interest in looking the subject up;
> a) Is there such a webpage?
http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin-apps/setup.html has the relevant info.
I'd be happy to have specific instructions there. IMO this isn't
relevant for the package maintainer instructions at
http://www.cygwin.com/setup.html - and there is already a link to from
there. (I quote: Setup.exe has it's own homepage
http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin-apps/setup.html. If you are interested
in adding features to setup.exe, or in manually creating a setup.ini
file, you should consult the setup.exe homepage.)
> b) Is there a nice stub for such an setup.ini file?
See the homepage.
Rob
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