From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mout.kundenserver.de (mout.kundenserver.de [212.227.126.187]) by sourceware.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 735C03858D1E for ; Tue, 21 Feb 2023 09:12:51 +0000 (GMT) Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; dmarc=permerror header.from=cygwin.com Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; spf=fail smtp.mailfrom=cygwin.com Received: from calimero.vinschen.de ([24.134.7.25]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (mreue010 [212.227.15.167]) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 1MKbPg-1pDxmf3jVk-00KycR for ; Tue, 21 Feb 2023 10:12:49 +0100 Received: by calimero.vinschen.de (Postfix, from userid 500) id EEFF8A8079F; Tue, 21 Feb 2023 10:12:48 +0100 (CET) Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2023 10:12:48 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin-patches@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Copyright outdated? in Cygwin/X FAQ 12.6 and not addressed in Cygwin FAQ 7.1 link Message-ID: Reply-To: cygwin-patches@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-patches@cygwin.com References: <6b01a995-96e5-7b46-3323-1cf348d25252@Shaw.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <6b01a995-96e5-7b46-3323-1cf348d25252@Shaw.ca> X-Provags-ID: V03:K1:YeT9NFmK++Qc7BmqizUU7FRy0Ff1j7afvzk9JB/ovLNROMDX564 lwNJrirUKBrA1L8m8EkAJinqLtdpjI7QD8HCiXfitOfhDgp7X7nd+/eP3e0tSmmPlUL5KwC G09JTzC3n4Y1jLJ7ugJlzcBX7lF3tmmxv0hIPviNYd5rzZXFGqqhGR+G2X2dLrq5zY9s7ke B10A3wwO0vbGzssGXzirg== UI-OutboundReport: notjunk:1;M01:P0:20oSm3FSgYE=;6kzCExnDc2PglgphxJ8SgFvHwuJ MBBAD7m4c2RfjtjMe5Ox8d9CPV9jOsu3ytW2S1MpIwvZzc8lEQHRmom94LzDH4f9n1VpD7HFm 2y9RjTzbOWm9AXIcL1cUvfy6C3ckvLZr9CHpdOo2DnMmyiqGrskS7HVDBdKdXZ1s/IrIAoo8l dK4nVn5mbzRmwR9MDeUkjsR7HB95ZN96U+AdU4WlU27xA6kBo1JXNzf6/rq/rczWlAuZv6Tyf kLGoEQVTrz1UAiMJ3R1kW5dJT3gN/MoEivzt4NUD5uNpqtbrHNZ0TAx1BR/NAuQwidRvWGZkf vxWQp53qZ9A6lQaeE59TgQwYUB2f8y/CseVlJGKNvY53R48uf6RvqkxRU0znSTW3NX5T4CcLa IltfoD7iMEJCfmsuhhQ3BrlzKqvFXW1dn8v5NLvagSHZ2Y35/HOut3HfHYDBbanJBwoxPhDLp KJH0UGsYDm3I8jsPBr+ySM8kKVBePmOvwuWCuopkV753SbwLxc8rIy21+hr3MklpLOd6EL/P1 TjTVbhmkyY+jf8FlM6quLL0EGse7NRAqcGWuYx7mozkfjA03rBeY5ZP+uT0u1bjfUgbWhmIFX 62NAwVRQKNtdybMr7I/vMIFU1ZjQq4dbu6AjGuwpAHbsZ6qFiXCYs5/qtuawGfP7dDi6IsE+P 2ZWug38ChsvUKoqe50vdU9tnmSDOD8ueqV6+pVAHiw== X-Spam-Status: No, score=-97.5 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,GOOD_FROM_CORINNA_CYGWIN,KAM_DMARC_STATUS,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H2,SPF_FAIL,SPF_HELO_NONE,TXREP autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.6 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.6 (2021-04-09) on server2.sourceware.org List-Id: On Feb 20 13:20, Brian Inglis wrote: > Hi folks, > [Addressing to patches as that's where we'll fix it, and not a general issue.] > > Noticed that: > > https://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#q-copyright-cygwin > > "12.6. Who holds the copyright on the Cygwin source code? > > Red Hat owns the copyright on the Cygwin source code. Red Hat requires that > copyright be assigned to Red Hat for non-trivial changes to Cygwin. You must > fill out a copyright transfer form if you are going to contribute > substantial changes to Cygwin." > > Has that not been assigned to the project? > > And also: > > https://cygwin.com/faq/faq.html#faq.what.copyright > > "7.1. What are the copyrights? > 7.1. > What are the copyrights? > Please see https://cygwin.com/licensing.html for more information about > Cygwin copyright and licensing." > > -> > > "Cygwin™ Linking Exception > As a special exception, the copyright holders of the Cygwin library" > > Is that the project? Yes, that's the Cygwin project, not the distro as a whole. All packages in the distro have their own license. THe above is strictly only about the Cygwin project license as defined by ... > [...] > Or does it belong to the authors individually and/or the project or the https://cygwin.com/git/?p=newlib-cygwin.git;a=blob;f=winsup/CYGWIN_LICENSE After Red Hat stopped selling the Cygwin buyout license, Red Hat changed the license of the DLL to "GPLv3+ w/ linking exception" and handed the copyright over to the community, so the copyright holders are the individual contributors, most of which are mentioned in https://cygwin.com/git/?p=newlib-cygwin.git;a=blob;f=winsup/CONTRIBUTORS The former buyout licenses had a pretty long lifetime, so it was necessary from a legal perspective, that contributors passed over the code under a BSD-2-clause license as long as the buyout licenses were active. This time has passed in the meantime, so we don't really need the CONTRIBUTORS file anymore. > "Cygwin authors" collectively? The project doesn't "belong" anybody anymore. The project has copyright holders. Those are the developers contributing code to the project collectively. Corinna