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Re: please test new setup




I've also been told that
"Copyright (c) 2000, 2001,2002, 2003, 2004, 2005" (as on cygwin.com)
means something different than 2000-2005 to lawyers.

The FSF indicates that there is indeed a slight legal difference, and i belive they are correct. If you list each year individually it indicates that updates were made in each of those years. a range of years only indicates that updates were made in the two bounding years, and possibly some in the others.


A lawer could succesfully argue that because 2000-2005, does not indicate any years other than 2000, and 2005, any code written before 2005 should be assumed to expire as though it were written in 2000. If they did argue that it would hardly make a difference, because except for corporate copyright, and anonymous copyright (which afaict is worthless) the date of publication has no affect on the date of copyrigh experation which is death of author + several years (I forget the exact number).


A small suggestion: a link to the User's Guide setup section <http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/setup-net.html> on the first screen and/or the chooser would be great since I bet that's where people are most likely to want help.


I just used it to upgrade from cygwin-1.5.15-1 and it mostly worked fine.
I definitely think the improvements are a step up from the current, thanks
for moving on this. The only problem was that I got the cygwin1.dll "not found"
message--I think from the man uninstall script. Not a big deal since it seemed
to have worked fine.


2005/05/08 11:40:17 Uninstalling cygwin
2005/05/08 11:40:18 Uninstalling man
2005/05/08 11:40:18 running: C:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe -c /etc/preremove/man.sh
2005/05/08 11:40:20 Uninstalling tetex
2005/05/08 11:40:20 io_stream_cygfile: fopen failed 2 No such file or directory


Another thought for the future: since setup is stopping anti-virus,
could it also
automatically stop and start sshd or other Cygwin services? This would
probably require coordination with cygrunsrv, maybe a shared config file like
/etc/setup/services or something.



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