Re: seperate xfree project on sourceforge

[Rasjid Wilcox <rasjidw at bigpond dot com>]

On Tue, 20 Nov 2001 06:03, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >Rasjid Wilcox had a very similar idea to winfree86 named winxterm (see
> >http://lasp.sourceforge.net/winxterm/ ).  He has already produced a
> > minimal cygwin + xfree of about 4mb.  If we can integrate the two
> > projects winfree86 (or whatever its called) will be available much
> > sooner.
>
> This sounds like YA ill-conceived fork.  And, oh joy, oh rapture, it is
> also YA GPL violation.
>
> I've Cc'ed Rasjid.  Rasjid -- you need to provide the sources for the
> binary packages that you are providing, in compliance with the GPL.  Just
> providing a link to cygwin.com is not sufficient.
>

By all means enlighten me about the GPL.  On the 24 and 25 August 01, I 
posted to the list asking about GPL issues etc, and got 
no reply.  (Well, in one email I asked about 'formalities', but what I meant 
was "Is what I've done okay? Who should I talk to? Please help me I've never 
put any open source stuff on the web before?".  In the other I mentioned the 
GPL.  Both were titled "Screen numbers", which makes sense when you read 
them.)  I provided a link to my project so that people could have a look and 
inform me of what I needed to do, whether it was already being done or how it 
might be integrated with the main project.

At the time I had only been on the list for 4 days, and was very new to the 
whole thing.  On the whole I still am, so I'm sorry if I've broken some 
rules.  It certainly was with no ill intent.

The next step in my project was to remove the need for me to host any 
binaries anyway, and just to have a script the grabs the minimal set of 
required files from the cygwin-xfree mirrors.  My guess is that the new 
setup.exe for Cygwin (perhaps with a very minimal amount of tweaking) would 
be able to do that too, in which case I don't have to do anything! (Except 
presumably take down the binaries.)

If people are interesed, I'm more than happy to explain exactly what I want 
to achieve, why, and how it could be integrated with the main project.

Rasjid.