Re: Cygwin now licensed under GPLv3+

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On Oct 20 15:00, Luke Kendall wrote:
> I wonder if perhaps you have a very precise understanding of what is
> meant by "cygwin" in `Red Hat has relicensed Cygwin from "GNU Public
> License version 2" (GPLv2) to"GNU Public License version 3 or later"
> (GPLv3+)', whereas my (probably wrong) interpretation of "cygwin" is
> "the stuff you can install by Cygwin's setup.exe".

"cygwin" is basically the "cygwin" package, or better, the code in the
source package which comes under the "winsup/cygserver", "winsup/cygwin",
"winsup/lsaauth", and "winsup/utils" directory, except for the source
files which are explicitely given another license (mostly BSD).

The files installed from the "cygwin" binary package are covered by this.

> I say that because I looked in my old Cygwin install ("find c:/ d:/
> -type d -name winsup -print") for a winsup directory but couldn't
> find it, and then fetched the latest cygwin-1.7.9-1.tar.bz2 and
> looked inside that for a winsup directory but again couldn't find a
> directory called anything like "winsup".

See the source package.


Corinna

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