GPL violation ?
Chris Herborth
chrish@cryptocard.com
Wed May 5 17:48:00 GMT 2004
Vince Hoffman wrote:
> Checkpoint appear to be distributing cygwin1.dll (as well as gzip and
> gtar) without any obvious sources available. if fact of the 3 GPL utils
> its the only that doesnt have its own copying notice (they do at least
> provide a copy of the GPL.)
Go read the GPL; you only need to provide sources to people who
_ask_for_them_. These days, you could probably just refer them to a web
page or something. Also, they have to make any _changes_ they've made to
the source available.
Including GPL'd code in a project as a shared library/DLL is just peachy;
GPL requires the end-user to be able to replace/upgrade the GPL'd hunk
without intervention.
I went through all this nonsense (IMHO) when I built a binary Python
distribution for BeOS way back when... I wanted to include readline support,
but libreadline is GPL'd.
> I havent contacted them about this as i could be in error and havent at
> the moment got time for an exaustive search of their site, but i thought
> i'd best let the list know.
So contact their tech support and tell them you want the code for
cygwin1.dll, gzip, tar, plus any changes they've made to the code...
Hope I wasn't sounding too snippy in this message, I've actually had to
explain this several times this week. Must be related to the change in
seasons. ;-)
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Chris Herborth chrish@cryptocard.com
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