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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

  reply	other threads:[~2012-12-06  8:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <CAMgm8F0K9juGwfGy9DZ=DXMqWNkOk04fR_NUox+fGTwDW56Uug@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found] ` <50BE8526.3030602@cygwin.com>
     [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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