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From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon@yandex.ru>
To: Bill Stewart <bstewart@iname.com>, cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: [ANN] Cygwin-OpenSSH 8.2.2.2
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2020 21:20:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1354277390.20200229001904@yandex.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANV9t=ST0X5P7CR2A9C9H79kRq=8NEjCWg7gA=Rj68E6D3ZDGA@mail.gmail.com>

Greetings, Bill Stewart!

>> No, you must backport all sources to the current and all previous versions
>> and
>> redistribute, or at least make them visible and available on your site,
>> otherwise you are in breach of the licence and must withdraw all
>> distributions
>>

> I have removed the package. (The phrase "no good deed goes unpunished"
> comes to mind.)

> I will put up a separate package later that does not contain any cygwin
> binaries and write a script instead that can download the needed binaries
> and sources using the cygwin setup tool (that the user will have to
> download themselves).

You can download the setup yourself as part of installation process, just make
it clear to the user, what happening, make sure your download process is
sufficiently secure, and include the instructions, how to avoid this in case
the user already have Cygwin environment installed.

> In this way I will be hosting no binaries and will
> not be in violation of any license.


-- 
With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Saturday, February 29, 2020 0:16:46

Sorry for my terrible english...


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-02-28 21:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-02-26 21:02 Bill Stewart
2020-02-27  6:47 ` ASSI
2020-02-27 14:51   ` Bill Stewart
2020-02-27 18:22     ` Henry S. Thompson
2020-02-27 18:52     ` Achim Gratz
2020-02-27 19:37       ` Bill Stewart
2020-02-27 22:31         ` Brian Inglis
2020-02-28 14:51           ` Bill Stewart
2020-02-28 17:45             ` Andrew Schulman via cygwin
2020-02-28 21:20             ` Andrey Repin [this message]
2020-03-01 11:53             ` Achim Gratz
2020-03-24  1:04           ` L A Walsh
2020-03-24 10:23             ` Adam Dinwoodie
2020-03-24 15:07               ` Bill Stewart

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