From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 13148 invoked by alias); 3 Dec 2008 15:46:01 -0000 Received: (qmail 30548 invoked by uid 22791); 3 Dec 2008 15:27:20 -0000 X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2008 15:46:00 -0000 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin-licensing@cygwin.com Cc: Steve Duquette Subject: Re: YA Licensing question Message-ID: <20081203152742.GW12905@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin-licensing@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-licensing@cygwin.com, Steve Duquette References: <4823D7AECDB60F4FAE7D3F86E8E3FCE502C7FC1F@usexchange.bdal.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4823D7AECDB60F4FAE7D3F86E8E3FCE502C7FC1F@usexchange.bdal.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-q4/txt/msg00001.txt.bz2 Disclaimer: I'm not a lawyer. If you want to be on the safe side license-wise, consider to ask a lawyer specialized in software licensing questions for legal advice. Having said that... On Dec 3 09:42, Steve Duquette wrote: > Hi, > I have looked through your FAQ's, read the GPL at least a > thousand times, Googled this question to death, and finally read every > one of the entries in the cygwin-licensing mailing list, but just can't > seem to find my exact case. > > I am wondering if we could just install Cygwin on to the PCs we > ship as part of a larger system so that we can use the NFS server. We > need NFS because another part of the system is Linux based (diskless) > and needs to connect to the Windows host. Why don't you just use the SMB client which is usually part of the Linux kernel anyway? This allows to connect to Windows machines without the requirement to install Cygwin and an NFS client on the Windows side. You don't have to reply to this question, it's just a hint that there are other, simpler solutions available. > We don't compile anything against Cygwin, we just would run > nfsd, portmap, and mountd. > Would we be legal to ship these systems with Cygwin preinstalled > on them? If you're installing Cygwin only to run other OSS software, like the NFS server, you're fine, *iff* you ship the source code of the Cygwin tools to your customers as well. It's definitely *not* enough to point them to the Cygwin homepage. By shipping GPL software you're responsible to provide your customer with the exact sources needed to rebuild the GPLed software. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat