Proper distribution of cygwin-dependent software.

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Nov 22 01:57, Brian Dessent wrote:
> Oliver Wienand wrote:
> 
> > had I to ship the sources or it is sufficient to install an unmodified
> > version of Cygwin setup, which allows to get all the sources?
> 
> No, you can't just point people to the cygwin mirrors to get sources,
> even if your binaries are unmodified.  You have to provide them as a
> download on your own site (or in the same location as your binaries,
> e.g. alongside them on the CD.)  The GPL faq has an entry about this.
> 
> As a mental experiment, what would happen if the cygwin project suddenly
> shut down and took its website and mirrors offline?  Now you would be
> violating the GPL, because anyone to whom you gave binaries would have
> no means to get the source.  This is why the GPL requires that source
> and binary be made available side by side, not one from one site and
> another from somewhere else.
> 
> Brian

Exactly.


Corinna

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