From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15596 invoked by alias); 2 Aug 2009 16:22:06 -0000 Received: (qmail 19312 invoked by uid 22791); 2 Aug 2009 13:36:23 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=1.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_40,SPF_PASS,URI_BLOGSPOT X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4A759648.2020102@aol.com> Date: Sun, 02 Aug 2009 16:22:00 -0000 From: Tim Prince Reply-To: tprince@computer.org User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (Windows/20090605) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin-licensing@cygwin.com, cygwin-licensing@cygwin.com Subject: Re: GPL violation? References: <20090802040243.GA2117@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> In-Reply-To: <20090802040243.GA2117@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AOL-IP: 64.12.78.136 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 Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-licensing@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2009-q3/txt/msg00001.txt.bz2 Christopher Faylor wrote: > This article seems to imply that Dell is distributing Cygwin, > possibly in violation of the GPL: > > http://jbarillari.blogspot.com/2009/07/cygwinompmfail.html > > Ka-ching for Red Hat? > > cgf You claim that BLODA violates GPL? I don't see any claim there that Dell distributed cygwin. To the contrary, if they have BLODA which breaks cygwin, that fits the standard Windows marketing model "we don't fix bugs which turn up most often under cygwin."