Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> I make cygwin1.dll.bz2 available so that people can run the >> static binaries.
> If you provide the Cygwin DLL in binary form, you must > provide the sources of that version as well. Would a link to the latest version, say ftp://mirrors.rcn.net/mirrors/sources.redhat.com/cygwin/release/cygwin-1.3.20-1-src.tar.bz2 suffice ? >> I'm not allowed to transfer more than 100Mb a month. >> cygwin-1.3.18-1-src.tar.bz2 is 4631969 bytes. While I don't >> think many people would download the sources... > Sure but why not simply point to the Cygwin home page anyway > and not providing your own Cygwin DLL binary? No binary, no > licensing problems. For user's convenience. Why make them download the whole base system or the cygwin binary tarball if they may just need cygwin1.dll to run the static binaries ? Can't you provide a link to the latest released cygwin1.dll, what you do for snapshots ? -- 0@pervalidus.{tk, dyndns.org} -- 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/
