On 06/12/2012 09:12 AM, Nick Lowe wrote: > http://cygwin.com/ > > "The Cygwin DLL and utilities are Copyright © 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, > 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 Red Hat, Inc"
Yes, that's true for the cygwin1.dll. But it's not all the executables available from cygwin.com. Even among the packages I help maintain (on my own time, and not on Red Hat's time, I might add), ls.exe is copyright FSF; diffstat.exe is copyright Thomas E. Dickey; git.exe is copyright by many different individuals; etc., and none of these are owned or run by Red Hat. That is, Red Hat cannot make blanket operations on executables, just because cygwin.com ships them, because Red Hat is not the copyright holder on the majority of the binaries bundled in the cygwin distribution, nor even the entity that compiled the binaries in the first place. Most of what you get from cygwin is the effort of individual contributors, while only a few things like cygwin1.dll are directly owned by Red Hat. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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