From: Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: GPLv3
Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2007 02:33:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <468C588D.1060503@byu.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070702180442.GE30973@calimero.vinschen.de>
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According to Corinna Vinschen on 7/2/2007 12:04 PM:
> In the meantime, as long as the GPLv3 is not OSI certified (which
> shouldn't take long), Red Hat will not enforce the GPLv2-only state of
> Cygwin on the back of GPLv3 packages. So, tar 1.18 can stay in the
> distro if Eric trusts Red Hat not to sue him. The same applies to
> every other maintainer of every other package which goes v3.
OK, I'm putting some (hopefully well-founded) trust in Red Hat, as well as
in the OSI certification process. Thanks for the clarification; I'll
leave tar 1.18 available for download, in spite of its current (but
temporary) legal status.
- --
Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!
Eric Blake ebb9@byu.net
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-05 2:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-01 3:46 GPLv3 Eric Blake
2007-07-01 4:12 ` GPLv3 Brian Dessent
2007-07-01 14:17 ` GPLv3 Eric Blake
2007-07-01 14:24 ` GPLv3 Eric Blake
2007-07-02 7:40 ` GPLv3 Corinna Vinschen
2007-07-02 14:40 ` GPLv3 Andrew Schulman
2007-07-02 15:18 ` GPLv3 Corinna Vinschen
2007-07-02 15:29 ` GPLv3 Andrew Schulman
2007-07-02 18:04 ` GPLv3 Corinna Vinschen
2007-07-02 20:09 ` GPLv3 Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
2007-07-02 23:29 ` GPLv3 Dave Korn
2007-07-02 23:52 ` GPLv3 Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
2007-07-03 7:09 ` GPLv3 Corinna Vinschen
2007-07-03 17:45 ` GPLv3 Dave Korn
2007-07-03 18:07 ` GPLv3 Corinna Vinschen
2007-07-02 20:15 ` GPLv3 Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
2007-07-05 2:33 ` Eric Blake [this message]
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