cygwinb19 and mysql-win32

Christopher Faylor cgf@redhat.com
Mon Oct 22 09:28:00 GMT 2001


On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 03:39:18PM +0000, Markus Hoenicka wrote:
>I know I'm a little late but I'd like to add the following:
>
>The Cygwin version of the clients has readline support which the
>native version lacks. They do *not* distribute the Cygwin sources and
>thus violate the GPL. I offered them a few months ago to upload a new
>package with a more recent cygwin1.dll including the sources, but they
>didn't even bother to respond. I conclude that this is just not an
>issue for them. Although I abhor wielding the legal stick at every
>occasion, I wonder whether a nicely worded letter from a Cygwin/Redhat
>official might make this an issue for them.

Can you tell me who, specifically, should get some email?

I hate this legal stuff, too, but it exists for a reason and shouldn't
be ignored.

cgf

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