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RE: multiple cygwin installs
- From: Igor Peshansky <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: Dave Korn <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>
- Cc: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 09:22:26 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: RE: multiple cygwin installs
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On Fri, 30 Mar 2007, Dave Korn wrote:
> On 30 March 2007 10:20, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>
> > On Mar 30 09:33, Dave Korn wrote:
> >> On 30 March 2007 08:58, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>
> >>> Btw., do they provide the source codes for the Cygwin DLL and their
> >>> tools?
> >>
> >>
> >> ... because rebuilding their tools from source into your standard cygwin
> >> install is probably quite a good bet...
> >
> > I was actually referring to the licensing implications...
>
> Well, in a kind of way, so was I... the licensing implications being
> "They've gotta give you the source if you ask for it!"[*] Or to put it
> another way, the licensing implications being "You're free[**] from crippling
> dependency on the supplier's little quirks".
>
> cheers,
> DaveK
>
> [*] - oversimplified for purposes of not having a long discussion to clarify
> what is best expressed by simply referring to
> http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html
> [**] - as in beer.[***]
> [***] - no, wait a minute. as in speech.[****]
> [****] - look, i was up hacking on a compiler until 6am.... i'm not entirely
> sure /what/ i mean...
Which timezone? ;-)
Igor
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