Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > > Reformatted top-post... > > Václav Haisman wrote: > >> Ville Herva wrote: >> >>> http://www.dll-files.com/dllindex/index-c.shtml >>> >>> The same old story, if anybody's interested. >>> >>> Tried to email them via the contact form - haven't heard back. >> >> They seem to be offering just unmodified binary. There is imho nothing >> wrong with that >> >> Vaclav Haisman >> >> > > They are distributing the DLL without sources; that's a violation of the > GPL. I am not a lawyer but my understanding of GPL is that they have have the sources accessible if asked for, at most. They imho do not have to distribute it _with_ the sources. And the sources are accessible throught Cygwin CVS => no problem.
> They could only get an exemption using the Red Hat buy-out license > option but > based on dll-files site disclaimer > <http://www.dll-files.com/disclaimer.shtml> > I would be very surprised to find out they have such a license. > VH
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