RE: Debug of Test 15 (cgf input needed)

[Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>]

XFree sources are not GPL'ed but are available from Cygwin/XFree86 FTP
server.  Read the URL please how to download sources.  There is no setup.exe
at present.  The binaries are under GPL because they link to Cygwin1.dll,
therefore sources are available, but sources itself are under X COnsortium
license, that means you do whatever you can, if you can compile it without
linking to Cygwin1.dll, then your binaries are under X Consortium License
too.

Suhaib


-----Original Message-----
From: Enoch Wu
To: Christopher Faylor
Cc: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
Sent: 4/8/2001 6:43 PM
Subject: Re: Debug of Test 15 (cgf input needed)

Hi all,

On Sun, Apr 08, 2001 at 02:58:13PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 07, 2001 at 09:44:24PM -0700, Enoch Wu wrote:
> >You do need to get the sources and compile them with -g and with
> >optimizer -O turned off.  Edit the makefile to disable all strip
> >commands.
> 
> There are no strip commands in the cygwin DLL makefile.
> 
> >Sometimes sources are not easy to get.  Chris, is there a turf issue?
> 
> Huh?  I have no idea what you're asking.
> 
> What does "sources are not easy to get" mean?  AFAIK, you should be
able
> to either download snapshot sources or (preferred) check out the
sources
> via cvs.

Chris, I am over generalizing. I found the XFree86 sources everywhere.

I was thinking about the setup.exe listing -- there are many "n/a" when
I 
clicked the "download the source files". I'm under the impression that
if
they are GPL'ed, then the C source files are available for anyone who
wants
to enhance them and release them in the same GPL spirit.

EW

> 
> Instructions for checking out the sources via CVS are at the obvious
> place.
> 
> cgf
>