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Re: GPL Violation
- From: Frédéric L. W. Meunier <0 at pervalidus dot tk>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 14:52:09 -0300 (E. South America Standard Time)
- Subject: 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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