On Fri, Apr 22, 2005 at 05:58:24PM -0700, David Rothenberger wrote: >On 4/22/2005 10:56 AM, David Rothenberger wrote: >>On 4/22/2005 8:52 AM, David Rothenberger wrote: >> >>>I ran across a tool called "Trader's Little Helper" at [url removed >>>because it trips the cygwin spam filter] that includes the >>>cygwin1.dll, but doesn't provide source code. Even worse, it puts >>>cygwin1.dll in C:\WINDOWS! >> >> >>I succeeded in contacting the author of this tool this morning and I >>informed him of the problems and directed him to the cygwin site for >>more information. I didn't attempt to contact any of the authors of the >>other packages. >> > >The author of Trader's Little Helper responded to me. He basically said >the following: > >1. He doesn't think shorten or shntool are violating the GPL because >they have been around for years. >2. He doesn't think he's violating the GPL because he's not linking to >the cygwin DLL nor modifying it. > >IANAL, but I think that his second point is correct. I still think >shorten and shntool are violating the GPL because they *are* linking to >the DLL; it doesn't really matter that it hasn't been caught for years - >there is no statue of limitations in the GPL.
"I have been embezzling from the company for years and no one ever said anything so, too bad." cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
