Re: Packaging software built with cygwin

2003-02-06 Thread Jay Maynard
On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 10:34:36AM +0100, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: > The way I read GPL (but please correct me if I'm wrong) you should be able > to write a fork off the current Setup that installs the Hercules and gets > the Cygwin from one of the mirrors (of which you can download the lis

Re: Packaging software built with cygwin

2003-02-05 Thread Jay Maynard
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 12:55:43PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 11:18:22AM -0600, Jay Maynard wrote: > >It may be intended to be upward compatible, but that's not our experience. > Ok. I'm not going to start scouring random other mailing

Re: Packaging software built with cygwin

2003-02-05 Thread Jay Maynard
On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 10:32:46PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 08:48:03PM -0600, Jay Maynard wrote: > >On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 09:31:43PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > >>Remember that linking against some version of libcygwin.a doesn't me

Re: Packaging software built with cygwin

2003-02-05 Thread Jay Maynard
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 09:12:02AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 12:39:45AM +1100, Nigel Stewart & Fiona Smith wrote: > >>However, just in case you need to hear it, it is true that you have to > >>provide the sources for the cygwin DLL if you want to distribute it. > >T

Re: Packaging software built with Cygwin

2003-02-04 Thread Jay Maynard
On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 09:31:43PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > Now, hold on there, no need to jump the gun. I'm not what you may call "a > definitive expert on Cygwin licensing". In fact, whatever that page says > surely overrides what I said earlier. Okkay...that's what I'd been relying o

Re: Packaging software built with Cygwin

2003-02-04 Thread Jay Maynard
On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 06:27:39PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > You are aware that linking against the Cygwin DLL automatically makes your > software GPL'ed, right? Not according to http://cygwin.com/licensing.html: "In accordance with section 10 of the GPL, Red Hat permits programs whose so

Packaging software built with Cygwin

2003-02-04 Thread Jay Maynard
This is probably an FAQ, but I haven't been able to find any answers on the FAQ page at cygwin.com. I'm the maintainer of Hercules, an emulator for IBM mainframe systems that runs on Linux, Mac OS X, and other Unix-style OSes, and Windows via Cygwin. It's distributed under an OSD-compliant license