Re: cygwin licensing [was: [re: tar and gzip]]

2003-03-29 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 11:18:17AM -0500, Greg Freemyer wrote: > Good write-up. > > Is any portion of cygwin covered by the LGPL instead of the GPL? No. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developermailto:[E

cygwin licensing [was: [re: tar and gzip]]

2003-03-28 Thread Greg Freemyer
Good write-up. Is any portion of cygwin covered by the LGPL instead of the GPL? http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/lesser.html The LGPL explicitly allows proprietary software to be built on top of opensource libraries. TIA Greg -- Greg Freemyer >> > > Hi all! >> > > >> > > I wrote a small scr

RE: tar and gzip

2003-03-27 Thread Chris January
> > Hi all! > > > > I wrote a small script in Python, but it requires two programs to run > > correctly: tar.exe and gzip.exe. Both are in CygWin package. > And that's my > > question: can I bundle both programs and cygwin1.dll with my script? > Script > > is free, but the program that the script c

Re: tar and gzip

2003-03-27 Thread BB
"Krzysiek Pawlik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Hi all! > > I wrote a small script in Python, but it requires two programs to run > correctly: tar.exe and gzip.exe. Both are in CygWin package. And that's my > question: can I bundle both programs and cygwin1.dll wi

Re: tar and gzip

2003-03-23 Thread Martin Kudlich
ey are not installed output a message saying that your script requires tar and gzip tobe installed under Cygwin? Martin Kudlich -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/doc

Re: tar and gzip

2003-03-21 Thread Krzysiek Pawlik
Christopher Faylor wrote: | "If I have to stop for *every* red light, imagine how long it will | take | me to get to work!" :) | We provide the software to you under a license. Yes, I know. | The GPL is very clear and | there is no clause in it that says you get to not follow it because | the s

Re: tar and gzip

2003-03-21 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 08:04:46PM +0100, Krzysiek Pawlik wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: >| All that you have to do is comply with the GPL. Simply put, that >| means that you have to distribute the sources for cygwin1.dll, >| tar.exe, and gzip.exe with your program. > >I think that I'll have to

Re: tar and gzip

2003-03-21 Thread Krzysiek Pawlik
Christopher Faylor wrote: | All that you have to do is comply with the GPL. Simply put, that | means that you have to distribute the sources for cygwin1.dll, | tar.exe, and gzip.exe with your program. I think that I'll have to make it in other way... The updater package consisted of four files: i

Re: tar and gzip

2003-03-21 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 07:14:40PM +0100, Krzysiek Pawlik wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: > Maybe you could explain your thinking here. You understand about >the GPL, right? How do you intend to comply with it? > >I understand it, but it doesn't make things more clear. Hmm. >What's my point?

Re: tar and gzip

2003-03-21 Thread Krzysiek Pawlik
script is bundled with the program. And.. can I also bundle tar and gzip *with the script*? tar and gzip are required for the script only. My main program doesn't use them. -- Krzysiek 'Nelchael' Pawlik | C/C++, PHP, OpenGL, WinAPI [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Network Administrator - BAFH

Re: tar and gzip

2003-03-21 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 07:04:12PM +0100, Krzysiek Pawlik wrote: >I wrote a small script in Python, but it requires two programs to run >correctly: tar.exe and gzip.exe. Both are in CygWin package. And >that's my question: can I bundle both programs and cygwin1.dll with my >script? Script is fre

tar and gzip

2003-03-21 Thread Krzysiek Pawlik
Hi all! I wrote a small script in Python, but it requires two programs to run correctly: tar.exe and gzip.exe. Both are in CygWin package. And that's my question: can I bundle both programs and cygwin1.dll with my script? Script is free, but the program that the script comes with is not. -- Krzy