Adding MSYS functionality to Cygwin

Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Wed Jun 19 20:25:00 GMT 2013


On Jun 19 11:04, Earnie Boyd wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 2:40 PM, Алексей Павлов wrote:
> > I want to add MSYS functionality to Cygwin.
> 
> One issue with that would be copyright assignment.  Alexey has been in
> the MSYS code so someone who hasn't looked would need to implement
> similar functionality.

Only if it becomes part of Cygwin.  If we implement the plugin/hook
method, the licensing is no problem.  The plugin could certainly
use plain GPLv3+ again.


Corinna

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