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Re: We need steenking patches (Re: Cygwin kill utility...)
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2014 12:55:53 -0400
- Subject: Re: We need steenking patches (Re: Cygwin kill utility...)
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On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 04:46:24PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Apr 11 13:09, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 02:10:42PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> >On Apr 11 09:01, Peter Rosin wrote:
>> >>The newlib license is liberal enough for RedHat to relicense it under
>> >>their own terms?
>> >
>> >That's it, more or less.
>>
>> I have never seen how you can have it both ways, legally speaking. I
>> was told not to worry about it when I was at Red Hat but no one ever
>> gave me a convincing explanation. Since there are no assignments in
>> newlib land, it just relies on BSD-like licensing. I don't see why
>> Cygwin can't do the same.
>
>BTAT in 2011. IANAL, but the reason is the buyout clause which,
>apparently, requires a certain amount of red tape while, incidentally,
>funds a non-trivial amount of the time I can spend on Cygwin.
>
>I'm just curious why you never asked the question while you were still
>working at Red Hat. Anyway, I asked again. Times change so procedures
>might change as well.
"I was told not to worry about it"
[rest of long rant snipped]
cgf
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