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glimpse not OSD compatible (Was: [UPDATE] Pending package status(11 Jul 2003))
- From: Hack Kampbjorn <cygwin-apps at hack dot kampbjorn dot com>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2003 13:50:43 +0200
- Subject: glimpse not OSD compatible (Was: [UPDATE] Pending package status(11 Jul 2003))
- References: <E19b0uN-0008Dt-Ol.2003-07-11-17-38-08@cmailm2.svr.pol.co.uk>
- Reply-to: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
elfyn@cygwin.com wrote:
@ glimpse
date : 02 Jun 2003
version: 4.17.4-1
status : on hold
notes : http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2003-06/msg00010.html
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2003-06/msg00013.html
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2003-06/msg00014.html
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2003-06/msg00238.html
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2003-06/msg00243.html
votes : 3 (Christopher, Gerrit and Joe)
url : http://www.tierra.dyndns.org:81/cygwin/chase/chase-0.5-1-src.tar.bz2
http://www.tierra.dyndns.org:81/cygwin/chase/chase-0.5-1.tar.bz2
http://www.tierra.dyndns.org:81/cygwin/chase/setup.hint
Elfyn McBratney wrote in http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2003-06/msg00222.html
> I'm wondering.. Will it conflict if their license isn't GPL or OSD compatible?
> Regarding linking it with Cygwin and thus automatically making this
> distribution of glimpse GPL'd?
Looking at http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition_plain.html it seems not to
be an OSD compatible license:
1. Free Redistribution
The license shall not restrict any party from selling or giving away the
software as a component of an aggregate software distribution containing
programs from several different sources. The license shall not require a
royalty or other fee for such sale.
So we have no exemption from the GPL for the cygwin stub in the exe files.
I think we should add a comment on the packaging page that only OSD compatible
packages can become part of the cygwin distribution.
--
Med venlig hilsen / Kind regards
Hack Kampbjørn