Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2002 14:47:17 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Cc: "John R. McPherson" , Corinna Vinschen Subject: From the GPL FAQ (was "standalone cygwin programs that use "/tmp" don't work") Message-ID: <20020818184717.GA2687@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com, "John R. McPherson" , Corinna Vinschen References: <3D588AFB.9D17EC0D@cs.waikato.ac.nz> <20020813124802.W17250@cygbert.vinschen.de> <20020817035535.GA15227@redhat.com> <20020817194410.A5740@puriri.cs.waikato.ac.nz> <20020817164750.GA1226@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020817164750.GA1226@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23.1i On Sat, Aug 17, 2002 at 12:47:50PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >Let me restate it: You can't rely on the fact that the source code is >"freely available". As I mentioned, that won't be the case for long >with cygwin 1.3.10. For everyone who is concerned by my insistence that people adhere to the GPL by making sources available for download, I'd like to direct your attention here: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#TOCSourceAndBinaryOnDifferentSites RMS referred me to this site after I asked him for some kind of definitive statement on the issue so that I don't have to keep fighting the same battle over and over again. Of course, I should have realized that I was in no way unique and that there was already a FAQ for this. I want to definitively state that I have no intention of providing a backup system for people who want to point at sources.redhat.com (aka cygwin.com) as a location to retrieve sources for the binaries that they are making available. If you are releasing binaries of any GPLed software you *must* make the sources available via the same mechanism. You cannot rely on me to keep the sources for your release binaries around. I'd suggest giving the whole FAQ a read, it clears up a lot of these issues. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/