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 -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
