Re: Cygwin-OpenSSH 8.2.2.2

[Bill Stewart <bstewart@iname.com>]

On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 4:24 AM Adam Dinwoodie wrote:

> On Tue, 24 Mar 2020 at 01:04, L A Walsh wrote:
> >
> > On 2020/02/27 14:30, Brian Inglis wrote:
> > > No, you must backport all sources to the current and all previous versions
> > ----
> >     What all previous versions?  Going back to year 2000 or before?
> >
> > That sounds a bit onerous.
>
> I think the point Brian was trying to make was that it is not
> sufficient to provide the source code in future releases of Bill's
> Cygwin-OpenSSH package. To comply with the GPL requirements, Bill
> would need to make available all the relevant source code for every
> binary release he has made of his package.
>
> Alternatively: yes. The GPL _is_ onerous. That's sort of the point: it
> forces people to make source code available even when they don't want
> to, regardless of whether that's because they don't want others
> changing their code or because they just don't want to do the
> additional work.

As already noted last month, the offending Cygwin-OpenSSH package has
been removed from GitHub.

Bill