On Sun, 13 Jul 2003, Hack Kampbjorn wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > @ 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 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
My bad. > > 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. OK. If I don't hear from anyone regarding keeping this package on the list I will remove it tomorrow. Elfyn -- Elfyn McBratney, EMCB | http://www.nongnu.org/wwwauth/ http://www.emcb.co.uk | http://www.emcb.co.uk/webauth/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | wwwauth-users AT nongnu DOT org