From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17143 invoked by alias); 30 May 2006 14:04:00 -0000 Received: (qmail 16129 invoked by uid 22791); 30 May 2006 14:03:58 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from alageremail2.agere.com (HELO alageremail2.agere.com) (192.19.192.110) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Tue, 30 May 2006 14:03:22 +0000 Received: from alerelay.agere.com (alerelay.agere.com [135.14.190.33]) by alageremail2.agere.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k4UE3JCE026685 for ; Tue, 30 May 2006 10:03:20 -0400 (EDT) Received: from PAUMAILF01.ags.agere.com (paumailf01.agere.com [135.14.186.245]) by alerelay.agere.com (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) with ESMTP id k4UE3JP19296 for ; Tue, 30 May 2006 10:03:19 -0400 (EDT) Received: from paumailu03.ags.agere.com ([135.14.190.64]) by PAUMAILF01.ags.agere.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Tue, 30 May 2006 10:03:15 -0400 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: RE: Re: Handling special characters (\/:*?"<>|) gracefully Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 14:04:00 -0000 Message-ID: <4C89134832705D4D85A6CD2EBF38AE0F3E0B33@PAUMAILU03.ags.agere.com> From: "Williams, Gerald S \(Jerry\)" To: Mailing-List: contact cygwin-talk-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-talk-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List X-SW-Source: 2006-q2/txt/msg00396.txt.bz2 Joe Smith wrote: > If you modify it in any way, you have created a derived work. That > is very well established. If your modifications are non-trivial, > then you would hold copyright on the derived work, so there should > be absolutly no problems releasing the dirived work under the GPL. Cygwin core code is not simply GPL'ed. RedHat owns the copyright and chooses to release a version under the GPL. They insist on having clear rights to the code. If you can prove that some code is public domain, everybody has clear rights to it. I had hoped that publishing something as a public domain project would be sufficient for RedHat, but it apparently is not. They want a clear trail of accountability. Christopher Faylor wrote: > So, while someone did tell me that public domain software > might be ok to include, practically speaking, we only have > one approved mechanism for getting changes into cygwin - the > person and the person's company who makes the changes must > have a signed agreement with Red Hat. I'm not talking specifically about Cygwin, but it would be to everybody's benefit if we could figure out how to incorporate public domain software without getting the lawyers all riled up(*). This stuff is being donated to the greater infosphere for the common good--there should be a way to Do The Right Thing (tm) and actually have it count. :-) gsw (*) - I was really thinking of a much more colorful metaphor as I wrote this.