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Re: Distribution
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 11:47:42 -0500
- Subject: Re: Distribution
- References: <17B78BDF120BD411B70100500422FC6309E3E9@IIS000>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 02:38:57PM +0100, Bernard Dautrevaux wrote:
>>If you are in compliance with the licensing of each of the packages
>>that you will be releasing (including the cygwin DLL) then you should
>>be ok. I can only speak in a semi-official capacity for cygwin. The
>>other packages have their own licensing terms. I assume that adhering
>>to the GPL should satisfy all of the licensing terms but I don't know
>>for sure.
>>
>>If you want to be 100% sure of that fact, then you should contact a
>>lawyer.
>
>
>Note that if you put full sources with the binaries, you provide your
>user with everything that RedHat provides with the binary; so either
>you are compliant or RedHat is not :-)
>
>Just my .02euro
Your .02euro is worth exactly as much as mine. Neither of us is a
lawyer. If someone is asking for advice on how to be legally correct
then they should seek appropriate counsel.
cgf
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