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Re: GPL-3
Andy,
I just installed Cygwin 1.7, and didn't install any extra packages. Here's what I see:
ross@varuna ~
$ gunzip -c /etc/setup/base-files.lst.gz | grep GPL-3
usr/share/doc/common-licenses/GPL-3.0
usr/share/doc/common-licenses/LGPL-3.0
ross@varuna ~
$ ls -l /usr/share/doc/common-licenses | grep GPL-3
lrwxrwxrwx 1 ross None 7 Mar 31 08:36 GPL -> GPL-3.0
-rw-r--r-- 1 ross None 35147 Feb 16 00:50 GPL-3.0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 ross None 8 Mar 31 08:36 LGPL -> LGPL-3.0
-rw-r--r-- 1 ross None 7639 Feb 16 00:50 LGPL-3.0
ross@varuna ~
$ head /usr/share/doc/common-licenses/GPL-3.0
GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
Version 3, 29 June 2007
Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. <http://fsf.org/>
Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies
of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.
Preamble
The GNU General Public License is a free, copyleft license for
ross@varuna ~
$ uname -a
CYGWIN_NT-5.1 varuna 1.7.0(0.207/5/3) 2009-03-18 18:41 i686 Cygwin
-Ross
Andy Koppe wrote On 5/3/2009 1:58 AM -0800:
> The basefiles package doesn't have a copy of GPL version 3 in
> usr/share/doc/common-licenses. Should it have one, or is a link to the
> license on the GNU website as in the output of coreutils deemed
> sufficient?
>
> ls (GNU coreutils) 6.10
> Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
>
> Andy
>