On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 10:55:22PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 03:35:33AM -0000, Elfyn McBratney wrote: > >>I am sending you this e-mail because I was given your URL in passing, > >>and found that you are distributing Cygwin amongst other Cygwin-linked > >>utilities <http://hot.ee/tar/?l=/tar/download/>, but there is no URL > >>for the corresponding source code. > >> > >>I see mentions of the GPL on your site, so I'm guessing you are aware > >>that you are *required* by the GPL to distribute source code for such > >>utilities? > > > >Apologies to everyone for the imminent flaming. > > That's ok. I'm giving you another gold star for doing this despite the > possibility of someone calling you names, suggesting that you're wasting > your time, and reminding you that you're not a lawyer and so have no > right to an opinion. That takes some courage.
While I agree, doesn't it make more sense to contact people off-list first? If this was [EMAIL PROTECTED] or something I'd understand, but really other than us being fellow Cygwin users what does it have to do with the cygwin@ list? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
