From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 31117 invoked by alias); 6 Dec 2005 10:18:30 -0000 Received: (qmail 28876 invoked by uid 22791); 6 Dec 2005 10:14:32 -0000 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FORGED_RCVD_HELO X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2005 10:18:00 -0000 From: Corinna Vinschen To: Giovanni Organtini Cc: cygwin-licensing@cygwin.com Subject: Re: distributing CygWin on a CD with a textbook: how to acknowloedge Message-ID: <20051206101426.GB7487@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin-licensing@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: Giovanni Organtini , cygwin-licensing@cygwin.com References: <9b58f8350512060122p3646e393r4788585eea06b02f@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <9b58f8350512060122p3646e393r4788585eea06b02f@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i Mailing-List: contact cygwin-licensing-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-licensing-owner@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2005-q4/txt/msg00003.txt.bz2 Hi Giovanni, On Dec 6 10:22, Giovanni Organtini wrote: > Hi. > Me and my colleagues are writing a textbook on Scientific Programming > for degree students. It will be published by Addison Wesley (in > Italian, first, then we hope to translate it in English). The content > of the book is almost platform independent, but we suggested UNIX for > many applications and CygWin as a tool to be used at home for > exercises. > > We are wondering about including a CD in the textbook with the > complete CygWin distribution on it. According to the license terms, as > far as I understand, this is feasible. However, of course, we would > like to acknowledge the authors in the text. The acknowledgments > should be short, of course, but complete. I have not found in the site > a clear statement about how to properly acknowledge you excellent > work. First of all, it's "Cygwin", not "CygWin", lower case 'w', not upper case 'W'. Please fix that before publishing. Licensewise it's *not* ok to put the whole distro on a CD and add it to the book, unless you also add a CD to the book which contains at least all sources of all GPLed packages from the distro, too. According to the GPL you must provide the sources the same way you provide the binaries, otherwise you're infringing the licensing. For a start, see the GPL FAQ http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html, or better the full text of the GPL http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html. I'd rather see that you don't provide a CD with Cygwin, but only provide the URL to the Cygwin homepage http://cygwin.com and let the people download from the net distribution. This way, they get the latest available packages and bug fixes, and using the setup tool from http://cygwin.com is really simple and straightforward. There's also the problem of support. Since readers of your book will use your CD distro in the first place, they will inescabably use old versions of Cygwin and the accompanying packages. However, since you will probably not have a support forum, your readers will ask on the Cygwin mailing list for help. The Cygwin mailing list only supports users of the net distro, not of third party distros. So why not let your users just use the net distro in the first place? As for acknowledgement, see http://cygwin.com/who.html. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat, Inc.