On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 4:24 AM Adam Dinwoodie wrote: > On Tue, 24 Mar 2020 at 01:04, L A Walsh wrote: > > > > On 2020/02/27 14:30, Brian Inglis wrote: > > > No, you must backport all sources to the current and all previous versions > > ---- > > What all previous versions? Going back to year 2000 or before? > > > > That sounds a bit onerous. > > I think the point Brian was trying to make was that it is not > sufficient to provide the source code in future releases of Bill's > Cygwin-OpenSSH package. To comply with the GPL requirements, Bill > would need to make available all the relevant source code for every > binary release he has made of his package. > > Alternatively: yes. The GPL _is_ onerous. That's sort of the point: it > forces people to make source code available even when they don't want > to, regardless of whether that's because they don't want others > changing their code or because they just don't want to do the > additional work.
As already noted last month, the offending Cygwin-OpenSSH package has been removed from GitHub. Bill -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
