From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin-licensing@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Where are the licence texts for each package?
Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2008 15:49:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080807153205.GA13903@calimero.vinschen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <373711.32490.qm@web25402.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>
On Aug 7 14:07, Marvin 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.
> Specifically is there any official clarification of the "X11 style copyright"? The link from http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-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
> It would be really helpful if there was a link to the license(s) next to the download links, and if there was a page listing every package with a link to that packages license.
This is a nice idea but we're most notably lacking man power to
help setting up stuff like that. The Cygwin net distribution is
a volunteer effort. If you need something like that, feel free
to contribute.
Corinna
--
Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Red Hat
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-07 15:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-07 15:08 Marvin
2008-08-07 15:49 ` Corinna Vinschen [this message]
2008-08-09 9:23 ` Brian Dessent
2008-08-08 11:12 Marvin
2008-08-08 14:55 ` Christopher Faylor
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