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Re: Changes to cygwin licensing terms
- To: cygwin developers <cygwin-developers@sourceware.cygnus.com>
- Subject: Re: Changes to cygwin licensing terms
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd@yahoo.com>
- Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 05:23:16 -0700 (PDT)
- Reply-To: earnie_boyd@yahoo.com
This will be highly applauded.
--- Chris Faylor <cgf@cygnus.com> wrote:
> On Mon, May 10, 1999 at 04:22:34PM -0500, Mumit Khan wrote:
> >Corinna Vinschen <corinna.vinschen@cityweb.de> writes:
> >> Chris Faylor wrote:
> >> > [... licensing changes ...]
> >> > Does anyone have any comments on this, positive or negative?
> >>
> >> Only positive: This _is_ a good thing!
> >
> >Seconded.
>
> Phew.
>
> I've made a few more changes to the licensing file. DJ has
> pointed out that all of the additional points raised are already
> covered by the GPL but I think that it can't hurt to have a one
> or two sentence summary.
>
> Btw, apologies for tnis essentially off-topic post. I just wanted
> to make sure that I wasn't doing anything too stupid before I
> unleashed this on the general mailing list.
>
> -chris
>
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