RE: cygwin and GPL

RE: cygwin and GPL

[Bernard Dautrevaux]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nicolas Grehalle [ mailto:ngrehalle@rennes.jouve.fr ]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 8:19 AM
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: cygwin and GPL
> 
> 
> hello,
> 
> I have a law problem.
> I use cygwin on a CDROM to launch Apache and MySQL. This 
> services allow to
> use my application (a CGI program, in C) with a WebBrowser, 
> IE for example,
> on a local machine.
> 
> I can put cygwin sources on my Distribution, but I can't do 
> that with my
> application sources, because this application is a protoype 
> of a commercial
> one.
> 
> Could I distribute cygwin and my application on a commercial 
> CDROM, but
> without the sources of my application (but with all sources 
> and requirements
> of cygwin) ?
> 
> Thank you for help

All depends on your application:

If you just use cygwin because you need a bash shell and some *nix utilities
but compile your application natively for Windows (using mingw or
-mno-cygwin), that is if you own application do *not* reference cygwin1.dll
in any way, the you just need to put the sources for the cygwin packages
that you provide in binary format.

OTOH, if your application uses cygwin1.dll, then your application *is*
GPLed, so you *must* give access to the source code to anybody gets the
binary. The only alternative is to buy a commercial cygwin license to
RedHat.

Best regards,

	Bernard

PS: Of course, as usual, IANAL and I don't talk for RedHat.

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awk script compile problem

[hrishy]

Hello

a few minutes ago i installed cygwin and i tried to
run the following program.

#This is the awk script that will be called by main.sh
#the feild separator is |
#Created by Hrishikesk Samant
#Created on 08-Aug-2001
#BEGIN
{ 
	FS="|" 
}
if  (( $2  ~  /Label/ )  &&  ( $3  ~  /Not found/ )) {
	label=label+1
} 
if  (( $2  ~  /Form/  ) && ( $3 ~  /Not found/ )) {
	form=form+1
}
if  ((  $2  ~  /Report/ ) && ( $3 ~  /Not found/  )){
	report=report+1
}
END { print FILENAME, "\t" label "\t"form "\t" report
>>"result.log"}

this program runs correctly under mkstoolkit and on my
linux box.but fails to under cygwin.

with a parse error ^ if  ((  $2  ~  /Report/ ) && ( $3
~  /Not found/  )){

can somebody tell me whats wrong??

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Re: awk script compile problem

[Marco Craveiro]

On 04 Sep 2001 09:29:45 +0100, hrishy wrote:
> Hello
> 
> a few minutes ago i installed cygwin and i tried to
> run the following program.
> 
> #This is the awk script that will be called by main.sh
> #the feild separator is |
> #Created by Hrishikesk Samant
> #Created on 08-Aug-2001
> #BEGIN
> { 
> 	FS="|" 
> }
> if  (( $2  ~  /Label/ )  &&  ( $3  ~  /Not found/ )) {
> 	label=label+1
> } 
> if  (( $2  ~  /Form/  ) && ( $3 ~  /Not found/ )) {
> 	form=form+1
> }
> if  ((  $2  ~  /Report/ ) && ( $3 ~  /Not found/  )){
> 	report=report+1
> }
> END { print FILENAME, "\t" label "\t"form "\t" report
> >>"result.log"}
> 
> this program runs correctly under mkstoolkit and on my
> linux box.but fails to under cygwin.
> 
> with a parse error ^ if  ((  $2  ~  /Report/ ) && ( $3
> ~  /Not found/  )){
> 
> can somebody tell me whats wrong??
> 
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> 
IIRC from my gawk days, you dont need the if when defining a rule in
gawk, just the rule itself:

(( $2  ~  /Label/ )  &&  ( $3  ~  /Not found/ )) 
{
        label=label+1
} 

you can still use ifs but they are normally placed in the body of the
rule. if standard awk works diferently, you can always set gawk to
behave like awk doing --compat, i think - but the man page is your
friend. a good place to look for differences is also the info manual,
its very complete.

hope it helps.

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Re: awk script compile problem

[Keith Seitz]

On Tue, 4 Sep 2001, [iso-8859-1] hrishy wrote:

> a few minutes ago i installed cygwin and i tried to
> run the following program.

I doubt very much that this worked on anything. This awk program clearly
has an obvious syntax error. On RH7.0:

keiths ~ >awk -f a.awk
awk: a.awk:10: if  (( $2  ~  /Label/ )  &&  ( $3  ~  /Not found/ )) {
awk: a.awk:10: ^ parse error
awk: a.awk:13: if  (( $2  ~  /Form/  ) && ( $3 ~  /Not found/ )) {
awk: a.awk:13: ^ parse error
awk: a.awk:16: if  ((  $2  ~  /Report/ ) && ( $3 ~  /Not found/  )){
awk: a.awk:16: ^ parse error

I also get similar errors on Solaris using its standard awk:

keiths ~ >/usr/bin/awk -f a.awk
awk: syntax error near line 10
awk: bailing out near line 10

The structure of an awk program looks like ("..." = statements):

[BEGIN] { ... }
{ ... }
[END] { ... }

Not like what you have:

{ ... }
...
END { ... }

Add braces ("{","}") at the appropriate places and it will work just fine.

> #BEGIN
> {
> 	FS="|"
> }
Add "{" here.

> if  (( $2  ~  /Label/ )  &&  ( $3  ~  /Not found/ )) {
> 	label=label+1
> }
> if  (( $2  ~  /Form/  ) && ( $3 ~  /Not found/ )) {
> 	form=form+1
> }
> if  ((  $2  ~  /Report/ ) && ( $3 ~  /Not found/  )){
> 	report=report+1
> }
Add "}" here.

> END { print FILENAME, "\t" label "\t"form "\t" report
> >>"result.log"}
>
> this program runs correctly under mkstoolkit and on my
> linux box.but fails to under cygwin.
>
> with a parse error ^ if  ((  $2  ~  /Report/ ) && ( $3
> ~  /Not found/  )){

Keith



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Re: awk script compile problem

[hrishy]

Hello Keith

I am glad that you responded.Thanks a lott buddy for
the help.

regards
Hrishy



 --- Keith Seitz <keiths@cygnus.com> wrote: > On Tue,
4 Sep 2001, [iso-8859-1] hrishy wrote:
> 
> > a few minutes ago i installed cygwin and i tried
> to
> > run the following program.
> 
> I doubt very much that this worked on anything. This
> awk program clearly
> has an obvious syntax error. On RH7.0:
> 
> keiths ~ >awk -f a.awk
> awk: a.awk:10: if  (( $2  ~  /Label/ )  &&  ( $3  ~ 
> /Not found/ )) {
> awk: a.awk:10: ^ parse error
> awk: a.awk:13: if  (( $2  ~  /Form/  ) && ( $3 ~ 
> /Not found/ )) {
> awk: a.awk:13: ^ parse error
> awk: a.awk:16: if  ((  $2  ~  /Report/ ) && ( $3 ~ 
> /Not found/  )){
> awk: a.awk:16: ^ parse error
> 
> I also get similar errors on Solaris using its
> standard awk:
> 
> keiths ~ >/usr/bin/awk -f a.awk
> awk: syntax error near line 10
> awk: bailing out near line 10
> 
> The structure of an awk program looks like ("..." =
> statements):
> 
> [BEGIN] { ... }
> { ... }
> [END] { ... }
> 
> Not like what you have:
> 
> { ... }
> ...
> END { ... }
> 
> Add braces ("{","}") at the appropriate places and
> it will work just fine.
> 
> > #BEGIN
> > {
> > 	FS="|"
> > }
> Add "{" here.
> 
> > if  (( $2  ~  /Label/ )  &&  ( $3  ~  /Not found/
> )) {
> > 	label=label+1
> > }
> > if  (( $2  ~  /Form/  ) && ( $3 ~  /Not found/ ))
> {
> > 	form=form+1
> > }
> > if  ((  $2  ~  /Report/ ) && ( $3 ~  /Not found/ 
> )){
> > 	report=report+1
> > }
> Add "}" here.
> 
> > END { print FILENAME, "\t" label "\t"form "\t"
> report
> > >>"result.log"}
> >
> > this program runs correctly under mkstoolkit and
> on my
> > linux box.but fails to under cygwin.
> >
> > with a parse error ^ if  ((  $2  ~  /Report/ ) &&
> ( $3
> > ~  /Not found/  )){
> 
> Keith
> 
>  

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