From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 7424 invoked by alias); 5 Jul 2007 02:33:48 -0000 Received: (qmail 7413 invoked by uid 22791); 5 Jul 2007 02:33:47 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from sccrmhc11.comcast.net (HELO sccrmhc11.comcast.net) (63.240.77.81) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Thu, 05 Jul 2007 02:33:42 +0000 Received: from [192.168.0.103] (c-67-166-125-73.hsd1.co.comcast.net[67.166.125.73]) by comcast.net (sccrmhc11) with ESMTP id <20070705023340011001kcure>; Thu, 5 Jul 2007 02:33:40 +0000 Message-ID: <468C588D.1060503@byu.net> Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2007 02:33:00 -0000 From: Eric Blake User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.12) Gecko/20070509 Thunderbird/1.5.0.12 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Subject: Re: GPLv3 References: <46872417.5010406@byu.net> <468729AE.DFBAD955@dessent.net> <4687B75A.9020700@byu.net> <4687B75A.9020700-PGZyUNKar/Q@public.gmane.org> <20070702073958.GY30973@calimero.vinschen.de> <20070702151834.GC30973@calimero.vinschen.de> <20070702180442.GE30973@calimero.vinschen.de> In-Reply-To: <20070702180442.GE30973@calimero.vinschen.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-apps-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk Sender: cygwin-apps-owner@cygwin.com List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2007-07/txt/msg00029.txt.bz2 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGjFiN84KuGfSFAYARAoSmAJ0Yrwu+0wxw8VCwqIR1TEu0nRy+kwCgmDHI TKyQmrIZ/81YKSBbVErBg0k= =7VF4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----