@ glimpse
date : 02 Jun 2003 version: 4.17.4-1 status : on hold notes : http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2003-06/msg00010.html http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2003-06/msg00013.html http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2003-06/msg00014.html http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2003-06/msg00238.html http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2003-06/msg00243.html votes : 3 (Christopher, Gerrit and Joe) url : http://www.tierra.dyndns.org:81/cygwin/chase/chase-0.5-1-src.tar.bz2 http://www.tierra.dyndns.org:81/cygwin/chase/chase-0.5-1.tar.bz2 http://www.tierra.dyndns.org:81/cygwin/chase/setup.hint
Elfyn McBratney wrote in http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2003-06/msg00222.html > I'm wondering.. Will it conflict if their license isn't GPL or OSD compatible? > Regarding linking it with Cygwin and thus automatically making this > distribution of glimpse GPL'd?
Looking at http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition_plain.html it seems not to be an OSD compatible license:
1. Free Redistribution
The license shall not restrict any party from selling or giving away the software as a component of an aggregate software distribution containing programs from several different sources. The license shall not require a royalty or other fee for such sale.
So we have no exemption from the GPL for the cygwin stub in the exe files.
I think we should add a comment on the packaging page that only OSD compatible packages can become part of the cygwin distribution.
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