From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 130986 invoked by alias); 27 Feb 2020 18:22:18 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 130978 invoked by uid 89); 27 Feb 2020 18:22:18 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KAM_NUMSUBJECT,SPF_PASS autolearn=no version=3.3.1 spammy=lesser, charitable, Informatics, H*f:Tap X-HELO: loire.is.ed.ac.uk Received: from loire.is.ed.ac.uk (HELO loire.is.ed.ac.uk) (129.215.16.10) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Thu, 27 Feb 2020 18:22:15 +0000 Received: from crunchie.inf.ed.ac.uk (crunchie.inf.ed.ac.uk [129.215.202.41]) by loire.is.ed.ac.uk (8.14.7/8.14.7) with ESMTP id 01RIMCNp020064 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Thu, 27 Feb 2020 18:22:12 GMT Received: from ecclerig.inf.ed.ac.uk (ecclerig.inf.ed.ac.uk [129.215.24.151]) by crunchie.inf.ed.ac.uk (8.14.7/8.14.7) with ESMTP id 01RIMB78003963 for ; Thu, 27 Feb 2020 18:22:11 GMT Received: from ecclerig.inf.ed.ac.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ecclerig.inf.ed.ac.uk (8.14.7/8.14.7) with ESMTP id 01RIMCNt020719 for ; Thu, 27 Feb 2020 18:22:12 GMT Received: (from ht@localhost) by ecclerig.inf.ed.ac.uk (8.14.7/8.14.7/Submit) id 01RIMCD3020718; Thu, 27 Feb 2020 18:22:12 GMT To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: [ANN] Cygwin-OpenSSH 8.2.2.2 References: <87sgiwedci.fsf@Otto.invalid> From: "Henry S. Thompson" Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2020 18:22:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: (Bill Stewart's message of "Thu\, 27 Feb 2020 07\:51\:14 -0700") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1012 (Gnus v5.10.12) XEmacs/21.5-b34 (linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Edinburgh-Scanned: at loire.is.ed.ac.uk with MIMEDefang 2.84, Sophie, Sophos Anti-Virus, Clam AntiVirus X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2020-02/txt/msg00253.txt.bz2 Bill Stewart writes: > On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 11:47 PM ASSI wrote: > > You will perhaps want to read the Cygwin licensing terms >> plus the licensing terms of each of the packages you distribute. >> > > The relevant licenses are provided as links in the installer and referenc= ed > in the User's Guide. What I believe everyone is being too polite to say explicitly is that you have not conformed to Cygwin's license terms [1] yourself: What are the licensing terms? Most of the tools are covered by the GNU GPL, some are public domain, and others have a X11 style license. To cover the GNU GPL requirements, the basic rule is if you give out any binaries, you must also make the source available. For the full details, be sure to read the text of the GNU General Public License (GPL). The Cygwin=E2=84=A2 API library found in the winsup subdirectory of the source code is covered by the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) version 3 or later. For details of the requirements of LGPLv3, please read the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL). I have tried pretty hard to find the Cygwin and OpenSSH sources in your distro and cannot find them... It seems likely that you're trying to do a good thing here, although in general pointing people to the Cygwin site with instructions allows a much better user experience than giving them a package which depends on a 3rd party (you) for updates. But you should play by the rules, please. ht [1] https://cygwin.com/licensing.html --=20 Henry S. Thompson, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB, SCOTLAND -- (44) 131 650-4440 Fax: (44) 131 650-4587, e-mail: ht@inf.ed.ac.uk URL: http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/~ht/ [mail from me _always_ has a .sig like this -- mail without it is forged s= pam] The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple