RE: cygwin License related Query....

2002-12-18 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
> >Well, perhaps, but I think those two paragraphs are the clearest and > >most concise "layman's terms" explanation of Cygwin licensing I've read > >to date. All it needs is a "No, a link to the Cygwin site won't cut it" > >paragraph and I'd say it would make a good FAQ. > > My response was tailo

Re: cygwin License related Query....

2002-12-18 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 11:26:27AM -0800, Shankar Unni wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: >>Btw, I was trying to move this discussion off of the public list because >>it probably isn't of much interest to people there. > >Well, .. > >The Red Hat Cygwin Product pages are marvelously content-free wh

Re: cygwin License related Query....

2002-12-18 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 01:39:57PM -0600, Gary Van Sickle wrote: >>If you are distributing cygwin1.dll and any of the executables that are >>directly associated with it (mount.exe, umount.exe, cygcheck.exe, ps.exe, >>kill.exe, cygpath.exe) then you must adhere to the GPL. That means that >>you hav

Re: cygwin License related Query....

2002-12-18 Thread Gary Van Sickle
If you are distributing cygwin1.dll and any of the executables that are directly associated with it (mount.exe, umount.exe, cygcheck.exe, ps.exe, kill.exe, cygpath.exe) then you must adhere to the GPL. That means that you have to make sources available to your customers. The fact that you haven't

Re: cygwin License related Query....

2002-12-18 Thread Shankar Unni
Christopher Faylor wrote: Btw, I was trying to move this discussion off of the public list because it probably isn't of much interest to people there. Well, .. The Red Hat Cygwin Product pages are marvelously content-free when it comes to cost and content (i.e. which version) information. O

Re: cygwin License related Query....

2002-12-18 Thread Christopher Faylor
y, December 17, 2002 3:26 AM >To: Sajad Bashir Qadri >Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; partha dhar; Dakshinamoorthy Venkataraman >Subject: Re: cygwin License related Query > >On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 03:41:00PM +0530, Sajad Bashir Qadri wrote: >>We have a software that runs on Windows platform .The so

RE: cygwin License related Query....

2002-12-18 Thread partha dhar
ember 17, 2002 3:26 AM To: Sajad Bashir Qadri Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; partha dhar; Dakshinamoorthy Venkataraman Subject: Re: cygwin License related Query On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 03:41:00PM +0530, Sajad Bashir Qadri wrote: >We have a software that runs on Windows platform .The software is a >