-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Dan Kegel on 3/18/2008 6:15 PM: | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: |> You somehow managed to get part of the message while tanking on the rest. | | OK, how's this look: | | Q. I want to bundle Cygwin with a product, and ship it to customer | sites. How can I do this without conflicting with any Cygwin | installed by the user? | | A. Cygwin is not designed for this. Please don't try. | Third party developers who wish to use Cygwin should check if | there is a version of cygwin installed and use the installed | version if it is a newer, or conditionally upgrade if it is not. | If someone wrote a nice utility for doing this type of checking, | the Cygwin developers would be happy to put it somewhere on | the Cygwin site.
That sounds better. But it is still lacking an important piece of information, which too many 3PP overlook: Also, remember that by distributing your project which depends on cygwin, you are bound by the license agreement, http://cygwin.com/licensing.html. ~ Your application must either be under the GPL, or you must purchase a support contract through Red Hat; and if you choose to distribute cygwin1.dll, you must also ensure that you provide the cygwin source code that matches what you distribute. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkfgXU0ACgkQ84KuGfSFAYDmpACfUwRL1CxEwpjvl8jgY5GlbqJe 4MgAnA5/ewHk4MZony6fS/8gymfOXfkb =1YCz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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/
