how to automatically install all local packages

[Corinna Vinschen]

Tod,

On May 12 12:48, Tod Courtney wrote:
> We use Cygwin to provide the Windows port of our academic software 
> (www.mobius.uiuc.edu).  Our software installation program prompts the user 
> for various paths, including the location of our software, and the location 
> of the cygwin folder.

I just visited your page and it looks like Moebius is proprietary software.
If you have linked Moebius to the Cygwin DLL, then you're infringing the
GPL license of Cygwin by not providing the source code of your application.
See http://cygwin.com/licensing.html for details.

How can you go from here?

If your software is not linked against the Cygwin DLL and you're just
providing Cygwin as an environment to run your application in, then you're
done.

If your software is open source and you're providing the source code to all
your users for free, then that's fine and you're done.

However, if you don't provide the sources to your users then that's
a breach of the Cygwin GPL license.  In this case you have two choices:

  Your source code has to be GPLed and you must provide it to your users.

or

  You can purchase a buyout license from Red Hat.  To do this, please
  either contact Red Hat using the contact information given at the bottom
  of our web page http://cygwin.com/licensing.html, or contact my manager
  Eric Bachalo, which I have Cc'ed in this posting.

> -- 
> Tod Courtney                         Senior Research Programmer
> Coordinated Science Lab                      | Ph:(217)244-3203
> University of Illinois at Urbana, Champaign  | Fx:(217)244-3359
> 231 CSL, 1308 W. Main St., Urbana, IL 61801  |tod@crhc.uiuc.edu


Thanks in advance,
Corinna

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