Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm Sender: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Message-ID: <36E30E97.7310@uni-duesseldorf.de> Date: Mon, 08 Mar 1999 00:41:11 +0100 From: Stipe Tolj Reply-To: tolj@uni-duesseldorf.de Organization: Department of Economical Computer Science, University of Cologne, Germany X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michael Hirmke CC: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com, dj@delorie.com Subject: Re: [ANN] Cygwin DEV survey References: <7COu0ETppfB@mike.franken.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Michael Hirmke wrote: > > Hi DJ, > > [...] > >> and all the other ports available at ftp.franken.de > > > >Warning: I've not seen full sources on ftp.franken.de, which is a > >violation of the GPL. You'll have to get the sources those packages > > Really? I thought, a pointer to the location of the sources would be > sufficient!?! Besides that IMHO you have to provide the sources *on* > *request*! For many of the packages there are in fact also source > packages in the same directory - there are no sources on ftp.franken.de > for packages, where the orginal source package has been used without > modifications. In this case there is only a pointer to a location, where > you can get the sources. > If not, please tell me, what I have to do to fullfill the GPL! There was > no intention to violate it. As I mentioned in a previous mail. RedHat and SuSE don't provide ALL sources for the pre-compiled binaries, so there is some kind of conflict here towards GPL. We would like to put a collection of software to a CD like RedHat and SuSE do, if this is violating GPL, so why do they. Regards, Stipe -- Stipe Tolj Cygwin Porting Project Department of Economical Computer Science University of Cologne, Germany http://www-public.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de/~tolj -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com