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Re: redistribution cygwin1.dll
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: Jim Drash <JDrash at eesus dot jnj dot com>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 13:27:54 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: redistribution cygwin1.dll
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Tue, 13 May 2003, Jim Drash wrote:
> No I am not thinking trademark. Copyright law is based upon contract law.
> So there is legal "detriment" on both sides. Failure to enforce
> provisions of a contact can make that contract voidible <sp?>.
>
> I am very tied of this debate. The simple thing is to follow the details
> of the GPL (or whatever licenses applies) regardless of how "silly"
> anyone thinks it is.
>
> It is just so trivial for developers to comply and debates as to why one
> should not have to comply merely waste everyone's time and seem to make
> cgf more mean <rofl>
>
> Jim Drash
Ok, that does it! I finally figured out the *real* purpose of all these
GPL discussions. See <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#GPL>. So there! ;-)
Igor
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