From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 23188 invoked by alias); 8 Aug 2008 11:12:40 -0000 Received: (qmail 1872 invoked by uid 22791); 8 Aug 2008 10:57:14 -0000 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,SARE_MILLIONSOF X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.co.uk; h=Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Reply-To:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-ID; b=6QaWftMzlmlfQl5CxdyYMhnH4DGaS7hQzGO4ArEllyGBpaqnGqojhzdHAeLy3c1qoNSgKUqoFNf+oQjVDGbrI3BuMBuJBV1Szqm0wU9O+4oBzB7ghA0OuidfXd6XM5IFWsTdeCsnDTO2TVkiadfmio8iOO9zIfTx4xdNeKabQC8=; X-Mailer: YahooMailWebService/0.7.218 Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2008 11:12:00 -0000 From: Marvin Reply-To: tbglosthope@yahoo.co.uk Subject: Re: Where are the licence texts for each package? To: cygwin-licensing@cygwin.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-ID: <148670.3984.qm@web25408.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> Mailing-List: contact cygwin-licensing-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-licensing-owner@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2008-q3/txt/msg00002.txt.bz2 Thanks for your time answering, I appreciate that OSS is donated to the community and is usually supported by volunteers, and am grateful for all such software, but by not clearly advertising its licenses=20 Cygwin makes it hard for people and corporations who wish to use the=20 software and respect the licenses. Corrina wrote: >> Is there any definitive way to view precisely what licenses Cygwin >> and it's packages are shipped under? >The definitve way is to look into the sources. He-he - I have to read the source to find the license so that I can find if I'm allowed to download and use the binaries?=20 There's a chicken and egg problem there. I'm asking where the licenses are so I can get legal approval=20 to download and use the binary software. I've already been expressly=20 forbidden to download or read any open source code (I'd have thought this w= as standard practice for any software house that didn't release=20 everything under OSS licenses). >> Specifically is there any official clarification of the >> "X11 style copyright"? The link from http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygw= in-x-faq.html#q-what-licenses-apply >> is broken. > The X license is available via the Open Source Group, like other approved > licenses: http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php Thanks but that's titled the "MIT license" - it's not an official looking explanation of what "X11 style copyright" is used. I'll point the lawyers at this to try to explain the discrepancy http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#X11License Again thanks for your time. __________________________________________________________ Not happy with your email address?. Get the one you really want - millions of new email addresses available now= at Yahoo! http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/ymail/new.html