[tex-live] Sources for cygwin1.dll etc.?
Alexander Cherepanov
cherepan at mccme.ru
Mon Oct 12 00:08:45 CEST 2009
Hi Karl!
On Sun, 11 Oct 2009 16:25:31 -0500, karl at freefriends.org (Karl Berry) wrote:
> There are some general purpose libraries like cygwin1.dll in the
> repository. What about their sources?
>
> I believe all of them are GPLv2-or-later, with the exception of
> poppler,
cygwin1.dll seems to be under GPLv2 also,
http://cygwin.com/licensing.html reads:
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) as
published by the Free Software Foundation version 2 of the License.
> for which I committed the source a few days ago. Therefore I am
> taking advantage of the clause in GPLv3 which allows specifying
> network locations instead of including all the actual sources for
> all those massive libraries.
I fear that even one library under GPLv2 brings all the program under
GPLv2 so full sources must be present.
Alexander Cherepanov
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