From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 20282 invoked by alias); 16 Aug 2006 13:23:02 -0000 Received: (qmail 20275 invoked by uid 22791); 16 Aug 2006 13:23:02 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from alageremail1.agere.com (HELO alageremail1.agere.com) (192.19.193.106) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Wed, 16 Aug 2006 13:22:59 +0000 Received: from alerelay.agere.com (alerelay.agere.com [135.14.190.33]) by alageremail1.agere.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k7GDMu70021913 for ; Wed, 16 Aug 2006 09:22:56 -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 k7GDMse23027 for ; Wed, 16 Aug 2006 09:22:56 -0400 (EDT) Received: from paumailu03.ags.agere.com ([135.14.190.64]) by PAUMAILF01.ags.agere.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Wed, 16 Aug 2006 09:22:54 -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: Rsync over ssh (pulling from Cygwin to Linux) stalls.. Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 13:23:00 -0000 Message-ID: <4C89134832705D4D85A6CD2EBF38AE0F68390E@PAUMAILU03.ags.agere.com> In-Reply-To: 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-q3/txt/msg00185.txt.bz2 mwoehlke wrote: > So... are we just disagreeing over "safe", or are you > actually telling me that RH (and thus Cygwin) would > *refuse* to incorporate public domain code? In fact that is the case, and it is a shame. In RH's defense, there is some legal vagueness around public domain code (and a few strange laws that add to the confusion by trying to accommodate shareware and such). But one would think that as a huge proponent of open source development, RH lawyers would have figured it out by now. I suspect that anyone could theoretically take public domain code and add their copyright to it (therefore it could be submitted to RH), but IANAL, and I won't be the first to try it. (Not that I could if I wanted to--my company lawyers won't sign the assignment.) Of course, this assumes that RH's sole purpose is making sure they can legitimately use the code--if their real purpose is making sure nobody else can use it (except under GPL), then this wouldn't serve their purposes. > The irony of course is that the availability of a > commercial license makes it look like Daryl's fears > are in fact very well founded. :-) I don't care if they want to make money, but their current policy actually prevents code from being released into the public domain. Even if their real motivation is not monetary, that is a consequence that I'd rather avoid. gsw