http://www.dll-files.com offers cygwin1.dll, no sources

Larry Hall (Cygwin) reply-to-list-only-lh@cygwin.com
Sun Jan 1 18:06:00 GMT 2006


Reformatted top-post...

Václav Haisman wrote:
> Ville Herva wrote:
> 
>> http://www.dll-files.com/dllindex/index-c.shtml
>> 
>> The same old story, if anybody's interested.
>> 
>> Tried to email them via the contact form - haven't heard back.
> They seem to be offering just unmodified binary. There is imho nothing 
> wrong with that
> 
> Vaclav Haisman
> 
> 

They are distributing the DLL without sources; that's a violation of the GPL.
They could only get an exemption using the Red Hat buy-out license option but
based on dll-files site disclaimer <http://www.dll-files.com/disclaimer.shtml>
I would be very surprised to find out they have such a license.

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