FAQ suggestion

[Eric Blake]

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According to Dan Kegel on 3/18/2008 6:15 PM:
| <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com> wrote:
|>  You somehow managed to get part of the message while tanking on the rest.
|
| OK, how's this look:
|
| Q. I want to bundle Cygwin with a product, and ship it to customer
| sites.  How can I do this without conflicting with any Cygwin
| installed by the user?
|
| A.  Cygwin is not designed for this.  Please don't try.
| Third party developers who wish to use Cygwin should check if
| there is a version of cygwin installed and use the installed
| version if it is a newer, or conditionally upgrade if it is not.
| If someone wrote a nice utility for doing this type of checking,
| the Cygwin developers would be happy to put it somewhere on
| the Cygwin site.

That sounds better.  But it is still lacking an important piece of
information, which too many 3PP overlook:

Also, remember that by distributing your project which depends on cygwin,
you are bound by the license agreement, http://cygwin.com/licensing.html.
~ Your application must either be under the GPL, or you must purchase a
support contract through Red Hat; and if you choose to distribute
cygwin1.dll, you must also ensure that you provide the cygwin source code
that matches what you distribute.

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Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!

Eric Blake             ebb9@byu.net
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