> -----Original Message----- > From: Brian Inglis > Subject: [cygwin] Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Country Of Origin Verification - 8944 > > On 2020-06-17 13:21, Marco Atzeri via Cygwin wrote: > > On 17.06.2020 17:37, Watson, Christian M. (GRC-V000)[Peerless Technologies > > Corp.] via Cygwin wrote: > >> We appreciate the reply. We are looking to use this software on a NASA > >> facility and that is why we sent you the questions we did to comply with > >> our > >> security restrictions. If you could tell us where this software originated
If it helps, I have performed the same for selected packages of Cygwin for Department of State and Department of Defense. I will send my contact information from there. I also had to address section 508 concerns. > >> from that would be all we need to move forward. We have followed the link > >> you > >> suggested and could still not find this information. > > > To make easy for you, as I did for Octave some time ago: > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cygwin > > Cygwin was originally developed by Cygnus Solutions, which was later > > acquired by > > Red Hat (now part of IBM). > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cygnus_Solutions > > So the original authors were located in USA. > > Also the main server is currently located in USA. > > Cygwin DLL current maintainers and contributors: > https://cygwin.com/git/?p=newlib-cygwin.git;a=blob;f=winsup/CONTRIBUTORS;hb=HEAD > > Cygwin packages current maintainers: > https://cygwin.com/cygwin-pkg-maint > > To get all Cygwin package maintainers, you would have to download the package > archives from https://sourceware.org/pipermail/cygwin-announce/1997-May.txt.gz > thru to the current archive > https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin-announce/2020-June.txt.gz, unzip them all, > and get the senders of each announcement. > > For a package's country of origin, you would have to check with whom, and from > where the source code for the package originated. > > Newlib (Cygwin libc) current maintainers: > https://cygwin.com/git/?p=newlib-cygwin.git;a=blob;f=newlib/MAINTAINERS;hb=HEAD > > To get all Cygwin and Newlib contributors, you would have to clone the > repository at top, list the log, and get the authors of each change. > > You should also be aware that Cygwin and Newlib have incorporated source code > from various BSD systems: FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD. > > -- > Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada > > This email may be disturbing to some readers as it contains > too much technical detail. Reader discretion is advised. > [Data in IEC units and prefixes, physical quantities in SI.] > -- > 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 -- 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
