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Re: Trusted Software Vendor
On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 09:32:00AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
>On 06/12/2012 09:12 AM, Nick Lowe wrote:
>> http://cygwin.com/
>>
>> "The Cygwin DLL and utilities are Copyright ? 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003,
>> 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 Red Hat, Inc"
>
>Yes, that's true for the cygwin1.dll. But it's not all the executables
>available from cygwin.com. Even among the packages I help maintain (on
>my own time, and not on Red Hat's time, I might add), ls.exe is
>copyright FSF; diffstat.exe is copyright Thomas E. Dickey; git.exe is
>copyright by many different individuals; etc., and none of these are
>owned or run by Red Hat. That is, Red Hat cannot make blanket
>operations on executables, just because cygwin.com ships them, because
>Red Hat is not the copyright holder on the majority of the binaries
>bundled in the cygwin distribution, nor even the entity that compiled
>the binaries in the first place. Most of what you get from cygwin is
>the effort of individual contributors, while only a few things like
>cygwin1.dll are directly owned by Red Hat.
Thanks, Eric, for an important clarification.
cgf
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