From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 18349 invoked by alias); 31 Jan 2006 15:15:32 -0000 Received: (qmail 15554 invoked by uid 22791); 31 Jan 2006 15:11:23 -0000 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,DNS_FROM_RFC_ABUSE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.6603.0 content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: RE: Mass Distribution Without Source, Bittorrent Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 15:15:00 -0000 Message-ID: <3D848382FB72E249812901444C6BDB1D0908A15B@exchange.timesys.com> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: Mass Distribution Without Source, Bittorrent Thread-Index: AcYmcE2maMupT0CFTk2hx+0rWsi8ZAABzCUQ From: "Robb, Sam" To: , X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at timesys.com Mailing-List: contact cygwin-licensing-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-licensing-owner@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2006-q1/txt/msg00004.txt.bz2 > I read about the GPL: the shop should provide the source code=20 > with the binary. >=20 > I plan to distribute Cygwin free of charge to several=20 > thousands local schools, universities, user groups,=20 > research/scientific institute, magazine etc.=20 >=20 > There are 5 ISO CD (600 Mb): 2 binary and 3 source code. A complete snapshot of a cygwin mirror includes a bunch of stuff you probably don't want to distribute. Each package generally has at least two source and binary packages - the current version, plus the previous version. If you are only interested in distributing the current version of each package, you can reduce the distribution size by eliminating the previous binary/source archive for each package. This is what my company (TimeSys) does when we distribute cygwin snapshots to our customers. At least for the moment, we're able to squeeze everything onto one binary CD and one source CD. If you were already planning on shipping two binary CDs, then this may allow you avoid potential GPL issues while still only shipping two CDs. -Samrobb