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Re: redistributing cygwin1.dll


Patrick J. LoPresti wrote:


  A) Redistributing a GPL binary as-is, for free, with clear
     indications of where the source can be obtained

It would be simple to craft language which would let you INFORMALLY
permit (A) without diminishing your ability to prosecute (B).  Of
course, this would require that you have some desire to distinguish
these cases, which obviously you do not.

I take it you haven't bandied words with RMS? :-)


--
Shankar.

PS The answer is "no" to that last statement, but it's not a personal cgf thing. That's the whole point to the GNU philosophy..



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