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Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 05:23:16 -0700 (PDT)
From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Changes to cygwin licensing terms
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This will be highly applauded.

--- Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com> wrote:
> On Mon, May 10, 1999 at 04:22:34PM -0500, Mumit Khan wrote:
> >Corinna Vinschen <corinna DOT vinschen AT cityweb DOT de> writes:
> >> Chris Faylor wrote:
> >> > [... licensing changes ...]
> >> > Does anyone have any comments on this, positive or negative?
> >> 
> >> Only positive: This _is_ a good thing!
> >
> >Seconded.
> 
> Phew.
> 
> I've made a few more changes to the licensing file.  DJ has
> pointed out that all of the additional points raised are already
> covered by the GPL but I think that it can't hurt to have a one
> or two sentence summary.
> 
> Btw, apologies for tnis essentially off-topic post.  I just wanted
> to make sure that I wasn't doing anything too stupid before I
> unleashed this on the general mailing list.
> 
> -chris
> 
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