From: JoopvandeWege@mococo.nl (Joop van de Wege) Subject: Re: Maintaining the beta 17.1 (LGPL-ed) tools 19 Jul 1997 07:53:03 -0700 Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <01ILF5JIGF4W016F1D.cygnus.gnu-win32@NET.WAU.NL> References: <199707150621.XAA27028@fleming.jimpick.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date-warning: Date header was inserted by NET.WAU.NL In-reply-to: <199707150621.XAA27028@fleming.jimpick.com> Original-To: Jim Pick Original-Cc: gnu-win32@cygnus.com X-Mailer: Becky! ver 1.21 Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com On Mon, 14 Jul 1997 23:20:59 -0700 Jim Pick wrote: > He's correct. Beta 17 is GPL'd - but the comments in the source > code weren't updated to reflect that. The cdk/winsup/doc/copy.texinfo > does say that it is GPL'd though. > > So I guess we'd have to start at Beta 16. > > It's probably a better move to start from scratch, using glibc > (writing a sysdeps layer) instead of newlib/winsup. We could use code > from Beta 16 and before, and from other sources. Of course, we're > going to need some good Unix hackers with some free time on their > hands too. There is a similar project for the Amiga. It uses what is called 'ixemul.library' which in essence is a small unix-kernal. It does the same as cygwin32.dll. The source is either under a Berkley license or real free. (don't quote me :) ). The project is maintained at the central site: ftp.ninemoons.com/ade and consists at the moment of almost all the GNU tools, X11R6.1 (6.3 soon). There is also an equivalent to mingwin32(?) which doesn't use the library. I'm interested in this because I tried to build a crosscompiler and ran into a couple of problems but still would like to see a 'usable' version of Cygwin32 in the future. Mail me if you need more information, Joop ---- Joop van de Wege (JoopvandeWege@mail.mococo.nl) Mobile Computing Consultants +31 (0) 318 553292 - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".