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Re: Cygwin kill utility //Was: cgwin_internal(): difference b/w CW_CYGWIN_PID_TO_WINPID and CW_GETPINFO_FULL for taking only dwProcessId ?


On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 05:50:26PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Apr  8 16:44, Adam Dinwoodie wrote:
>> On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 01:34:21PM +0000, Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] wrote:
>> > > He's a contractor for the US Government.  That makes things complicated and sometimes seemingly nonsensical.
>> > 
>> > Thanks, Barry.
>> > 
>> > A patch (however small) means code, all my code must under the Public Domain Notice (and which can't be GPL'd).  Thus, our legal
>> > office does not allow us contributing any such code, but verbal description of a problem (hence not constituting code per se) is okay.
>> 
>> I'm not sure what *the* Public Domain Notice is, but I don't know of any
>> public domain "licence" or declaration which isn't compatible with the
>> GNU GPL.  The FSF seems to agree:
>> https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#PublicDomain
>> 
>> If you provide a patch with a disclaimer that you are putting the patch
>> in the public domain, I would expect Corinna/cgf/Red Hat would be able
>> to incorporate it into the project.  They can then distribute it under
>> the GPL without you needing to do any of the copyright assignment or
>> distributing anything under the GPL yourself.
>
>Right, as long as it falls under the trivial patch rule.  We usually
>draw the line at about 10 lines of changes.

I'm assuming that it isn't just as trivial as "it's public domain" since
the government is involved.

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