Hi Rob, Thanks for pointing out my oversight of the appropriate GPL licensing terms. It was not my intention to violate the GPL, and I will endeavour to satisfy its requirements relating to source code distribution. In the meantime, I have disabled access to the binary archive on my website.
I searched for the Cygwin source code and found that it exists only in the form of separate <package>-src.tar.bz2 files on a number of ftp mirror sites. Is my reading of the GPL, term 3, correct in that I need to download the sources of all packages included in the binary archive file I prepared, and place them on the same web server as the binary archive file itself? Or would it suffice if I provided a link to the nearest ftp site from where the sources can be downloaded? Robert. --- Robert P. Biuk-Aghai, Lecturer University of Macau, Faculty of Science and Technology Ph: (+853) 3974365 Fax: (+853) 838314 Web: http://www.sftw.umac.mo/~robertb/ On Sun, 23 Mar 2003, Robert Collins wrote: > Robert, > I'm writing to you because I noticed that > <http://www.sftw.umac.mo/~robertb/courses/sftw120/cygwin.html> has > instructions for downloading a 17Mb archive of the cygwin utilities, but > no link for the source code for the same utilities. > > Are you aware that the GPL requires *you* to make such source code > available? > > Cheers, > Rob -- 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/
