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Cygwin package naming?
- From: Luke Kendall <luke dot kendall at cisra dot canon dot com dot au>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Cc: audit <audit-mail-disclaimer at cisra dot canon dot com dot au>
- Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2011 11:43:28 +1000
- Subject: Cygwin package naming?
Can someone with some official Cygwin standing tell me how the Cygwin
package names correspond with the "official" names of the packages,
chosen by the package owners? In other words, how are the Cygwin
package names determined? (My hope is that the "official" name is used,
possibly with "cygwin" added to it in some form.)
I'm asking because I'm finding Cygwin packages that contain no license
information, at least in the compiled form (e.g. gawk, libiconv2). So
I'm thinking that in such cases, I can modify my Cygwin license-finding
script to look up the package by name on freshmeat and try to find the
license from there.
But that is pointless if the Cygwin package name may have the same name
as a freshmeat package, but is in fact some other software.
Regards,
luke
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