glimpse not OSD compatible (Was: [UPDATE] Pending package status (11 Jul 2003))
Hack Kampbjorn
cygwin-apps@hack.kampbjorn.com
Sun Jul 13 12:02:00 GMT 2003
elfyn@cygwin.com wrote:
> @ glimpse
>
> date : 02 Jun 2003
> version: 4.17.4-1
> status : on hold
> notes : http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2003-06/msg00010.html
> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2003-06/msg00013.html
> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2003-06/msg00014.html
> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2003-06/msg00238.html
> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2003-06/msg00243.html
> votes : 3 (Christopher, Gerrit and Joe)
> url : http://www.tierra.dyndns.org:81/cygwin/chase/chase-0.5-1-src.tar.bz2
> http://www.tierra.dyndns.org:81/cygwin/chase/chase-0.5-1.tar.bz2
> http://www.tierra.dyndns.org:81/cygwin/chase/setup.hint
>
Elfyn McBratney wrote in http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2003-06/msg00222.html
> I'm wondering.. Will it conflict if their license isn't GPL or OSD compatible?
> Regarding linking it with Cygwin and thus automatically making this
> distribution of glimpse GPL'd?
Looking at http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition_plain.html it seems not to
be an OSD compatible license:
1. Free Redistribution
The license shall not restrict any party from selling or giving away the
software as a component of an aggregate software distribution containing
programs from several different sources. The license shall not require a
royalty or other fee for such sale.
So we have no exemption from the GPL for the cygwin stub in the exe files.
I think we should add a comment on the packaging page that only OSD compatible
packages can become part of the cygwin distribution.
--
Med venlig hilsen / Kind regards
Hack Kampbjørn
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