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From: "Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
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Subject: Re: Remove cinstall src directory from snapshots
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 19:03:11 +1100
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Christopher Faylor" <cgf AT redhat DOT com>


> How should the sources for utils and cinstall be distributed?
>
> I have just managed to separate winsup/utils as a separate binary
> release but I'm not 100% certain how to release the sources.
>
> winsup/utils is pretty useless without the cygwin directories, I
think.
> It can probably get by with the installed mingw/w32api, though.
>
> So, I'm not sure how to release utils.  Maybe I need to separate out
> the parts of cygwin that get used by utils and put it in a separate
> directory.

I don't think so, there's no reason that the source for utils isn't
cygwin-1.5.3-1-src.tar.bz2.

> Wrt to cinstall, I'd like to stop including the sources in snapshots
and
> net releases.  I believe that means that we'll have to release the
sources
> via some other method to be GPL compliant.

Ok, and yes.

> I know that Robert has a plan for this but maybe this is as simple as
> just including a tar ball next to setup.exe at sources.redhat.com.

That sounds fine to me. Or a link to the CVS page and a note there that
cinstall is the setup.exe sources.

IIRC the GPL doesn't prevent CVS being the distribution method as long
as its under the distributors control.

Later we can create a setup.exe -src package.

Rob