From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 6868 invoked by alias); 7 Aug 2008 15:49:14 -0000 Received: (qmail 26317 invoked by uid 22791); 7 Aug 2008 15:31:44 -0000 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2008 15:49:00 -0000 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin-licensing@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Where are the licence texts for each package? Message-ID: <20080807153205.GA13903@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin-licensing@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-licensing@cygwin.com References: <373711.32490.qm@web25402.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <373711.32490.qm@web25402.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) 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/msg00001.txt.bz2 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