On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 10:50:46AM -0500, Fleischer, Karsten (K.) wrote: > > http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html > > > > It's rather old and a bit badly maintained but it's basically still > > correct. > > I've read it a long time ago...
I'm feeling flattered. :-) > > One general question, though. How do these changes to handle things > > like U/WIN collide with the propietary U/WIN license? We don't want > > to have problems with AT&T suddenly. Especially we don't want to > > have sources taken from U/WIN. > > No sources were taken from UWIN or from the AST libraries. > I'm using UWIN quite a lot here at Ford, because I needed to use the MSVC++ compiler. > I've found many bugs in UWIN and I have email contact with David and Glenn on a >regular basis. They asked me if I could help out porting AST to Cygwin, because they >didn't want to touch (or even read) the Cygwin sources for obvious copyright problems. > The concepts I've taken from UWIN were explained to me by them verbally, so no >source code involved here. > Other portions are rewritten from the AST sources (which are open source, see >http://www.research.att.com/sw/license/ast-open.html). > I don't know if this license and the GPL collide IANAL but AFAIK, they collide. > , so I've rewritten the code from memory after looking at the sources. > The differences are substancial, so no problem here either. I think that's ok. "Rewritten" should be enough. IANAL, IANAL, ... Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Red Hat, Inc. -- 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/
