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: <3DBC5821F35CD2118C4A00A0C9EF594A08780C@proxy_internal.adacra.com> From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Micke_Hovm=F6ller?= To: Bernard Dautrevaux , "'DJ Delorie'" , cgf@cygnus.com Cc: creative1@bigfoot.com, cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: RE: licensing NOT clear for me Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 10:21:07 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.1960.3) Content-Type: text/plain > From: Bernard Dautrevaux [mailto:DAUTREVAUX@microprocess.com] > > From: DJ Delorie [mailto:dj@delorie.com] > > Still, you'd have to generate a new signed file every day > (to get the > > full 3-year term) and the user can always download a new one to > > illegally extend their term. > > > > Or just put a date till which you are ready to provide the source that > is 4 years after the date of the PGP-signed message then > re-generate it > each year; not such a hard thing to do.... No, maybe not. But doesn't the fact that we even discuss this prove beyond any doubt that providing free non-profit software to others as a service is ***WAY*** too complicated at the moment? I understand the objectives of the GPL, but in practice this is NOT a good way to solve the problen, IMHO. If I write a piece of code and give it away to others under the condition that they in turn keep giving it away for free, why should I have any more hassle with that? /Micke -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com