From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 18225 invoked by alias); 10 Jan 2002 19:17:29 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 18198 invoked from network); 10 Jan 2002 19:17:29 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lacrosse.corp.redhat.com) (12.107.208.154) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 10 Jan 2002 19:17:29 -0000 Received: from cgf.cipe.redhat.com (cgf.cipe.redhat.com [10.0.1.172]) by lacrosse.corp.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.9.3) with ESMTP id g0AJHSw12267 for ; Thu, 10 Jan 2002 14:17:28 -0500 Received: (from cgf@localhost) by cgf.cipe.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.8.7) id g0AJHgi27732 for cygwin@cygwin.com; Thu, 10 Jan 2002 14:17:42 -0500 Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 11:17:00 -0000 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: ksh on cygwin Message-ID: <20020110191742.GK26493@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <200201101618.g0AGIfs08384@dymwsm15.mailwatch.com> <20020110184019.GE26493@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020110184019.GE26493@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23.1i X-SW-Source: 2002-01/txt/msg00653.txt.bz2 On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 01:40:19PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 11:18:04AM -0500, Fleischer, Karsten (K.) wrote: >>>If you've actually looked at the UWIN sources, this is not enough. >>>IANAL either, but I believe that this means you've been tainted. That >>>means that we can't use your patches. Sorry. >> >>I've never had the chance to look at the UWIN sources. It's >>proprietary. As I said before, the UWIN developers explained the >>concepts verbally to me, no source code involved. >> >>The AST tools and libraries, which form the basis for the UWIN _tools_ >>(not the UNIX emulation itself) are open source. I rewritten some >>things from those sources (but from memory). >> >>>I hope I am misinterpreting what you said incorrectly... >> >>:-P > >I'm not sure but I don't think it matters if the sources are >proprietary. Maybe this is getting incredibly picky but if you adapted >algorithms from other non-GPL compliant programs then that is probably >an issue, too. > >This wouldn't be an issue for the Berkeley license, though. I don't know >what the AST tools use for licensing. FWIW, I'm checking on this internally now. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/