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Re: GPL Violation


Corinna Vinschen wrote:

>> I make cygwin1.dll.bz2 available so that people can run the
>> static binaries.

> If you provide the Cygwin DLL in binary form, you must
> provide the sources of that version as well.

Would a link to the latest version, say
ftp://mirrors.rcn.net/mirrors/sources.redhat.com/cygwin/release/cygwin-1.3.20-1-src.tar.bz2
suffice ?

>> I'm not allowed to transfer more than 100Mb a month.
>> cygwin-1.3.18-1-src.tar.bz2 is 4631969 bytes. While I don't
>> think many people would download the sources...

> Sure but why not simply point to the Cygwin home page anyway
> and not providing your own Cygwin DLL binary?  No binary, no
> licensing problems.

For user's convenience. Why make them download the whole base
system or the cygwin binary tarball if they may just need
cygwin1.dll to run the static binaries ?

Can't you provide a link to the latest released cygwin1.dll,
what you do for snapshots ?

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