From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 21862 invoked by alias); 2 Jul 2007 07:30:08 -0000 Received: (qmail 30322 invoked by uid 22791); 1 Jul 2007 14:17:02 -0000 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DK_POLICY_SIGNSOME,SPF_SOFTFAIL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4687B75A.9020700@byu.net> Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2007 07:30:00 -0000 From: Eric Blake User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.12) Gecko/20070509 Thunderbird/1.5.0.12 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin-licensing@cygwin.com CC: cygwin-apps Subject: Re: GPLv3 References: <46872417.5010406@byu.net> <468729AE.DFBAD955@dessent.net> In-Reply-To: <468729AE.DFBAD955@dessent.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.3.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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: 2007-q3/txt/msg00002.txt.bz2 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Brian Dessent on 6/30/2007 10:12 PM: >> So, what is the consensus - am I allowed to upload tar 1.18, or is cygwin >> forevermore stuck at tar 1.17 as the last GPLv2 release, because of the >> fact that building an image of tar 1.18 linked against cygwin1.dll >> constitutes a license violation? > > Remember that the Cygwin license includes an OSI exemption, so as long > as GPLv3 is eventually OSI certified (as if...) it's fine on the Cygwin > side. I don't know about the other direction though. Thanks for the reminder about the exception clause. Since packaging tar 1.18 does not modify the sources to cygwin1.dll, I agree that the GPLv2 exception offered by cygwin is applicable here. I don't think GPLv3 will have any problem achieving OSI exemption, so I went ahead and uploaded tar 1.18. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake ebb9@byu.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGh7da84KuGfSFAYARAkBeAJkBBaUW2kxYXGCR7iSTzMKDtH78lgCg1lKf 94vXSl2zetTLNXk4BjAOtK8= =GyNX -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----