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Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 17:03:43 -0400
From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc.)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>
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To: Elfyn McBratney <elfyn AT is DOT ubertales DOT co DOT uk>
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Subject: Re: Distributed Cygwin DLL's (fwd)
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Does his zip file contain written notice that he will provide the
source if requested for a period of at least 3 years?

Either way, I think this guy is setting himself up for a fall if
he's not archiving versions of the source.  You can't get a copy of
3 year old Cygwin source for an arbitrary (or any) distribution from cygwin.com. 
  Perhaps someone else is archiving each release for the
past three years for his benefit.  I'm skeptical of that though.

Larry


Elfyn McBratney wrote:
> Before I reply (privately) the bellow is not sufficient, is it?
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> On Tue, Jun 10 2003, at 05:14:57 +0100, Elfyn McBratney wrote:
> 
>>I saw your project mentioned on one of the Savannah mailing lists. I noticed
>>that on this page (<http://www.cs.hut.fi/Research/Dynamics/software.html>) you
>>have a link where a user can download a zip file named 'cygwin-dll.zip', which
>>contains, among other files, the Cygwin library (cygwin1.dll). You are also
>>distributing Cygwin shared libraries for Ncurses and GNU Readline, and as far as
>>I could tell, no sources to accompany those binaries.
>>
>>Are you aware that the GPL requires that you make such sources available?
> 
> 
> Yes. The source code is publicly available on a number sites. The
> binaries are built using unmodified versions of the source code
> provided by the copyright holder(s). AFAIK the GPL requires that
> you make the source available upon request. If someone requests the
> source code I will be happy to give a pointer to the source code on
> another site, place it on a server on my own for downloading, send
> it by email or burn it on a CD and snailmail the CD.
> 
> Regards,
> Bjorn
> 
> 
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