On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 09:32:00AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: >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.
Thanks, Eric, for an important clarification. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
