From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin-licensing@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Bug in Cygwin Windows 8 group permissions
Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2012 08:26:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121206080827.GA17192@calimero.vinschen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121206061946.GA10571@ednor.casa.cgf.cx>
On Dec 6 01:19, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 06, 2012 at 12:43:50AM -0500, Chaz Littlejohn wrote:
> >On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 4:26 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >> The most simple way to accomplish this is to add a sources download
> >> URL where you provide the source packages of all the OSS packages you
> >> use. It's not *that* much work.
> >
> >No problem, we'll add those links to the terms.
>
> Just to be really clear: These links should not be to the Cygwin web site.
> You need to provide the exact sources that go with the binaries that you
> distribute. You can't rely on the Cygwin site to provide those.
Exactly. Apparently my wording was unclear. What I was trying to say
is that you, Chaz, could create a sources download area on your web
server where you provide the source packages of the OSS binaries you
use. It's not sufficient to link to the upstream project page. That's
a common misconception.
Corinna
--
Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Red Hat
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[not found] ` <CAMgm8F0f1uNyoeE-_SFSQCbOUcK-y9kj3saq0dBC3Rw4jxzL4w@mail.gmail.com>
2012-12-05 9:05 ` Chaz Littlejohn
2012-12-05 9:39 ` Corinna Vinschen
2012-12-06 6:14 ` Chaz Littlejohn
2012-12-06 6:21 ` Christopher Faylor
2012-12-06 8:26 ` Corinna Vinschen [this message]
2012-12-06 12:50 ` Chaz
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