suggestion

[Chris Nappi]

>On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 08:15:01AM -0400, Suhaib Siddiqi wrote:
>>
>> It cannot be integrated in core distribution of Cygwin.  Because of
>> conflicting
>> GPL ad X licenses, it took me months to pursue XF86 board members to at
>> least integrate
>> Cygwin related patches in XF86.  We are allowed to distribute binaries
and
>> sources
>> separate of Cygwin, but officially integrating XF86 in Cygwin will start
>> arguments
>> with XF86 board members and may result in throwing away Cygwin support.
>>
>> Therefore, answer is no.  Cygwin/XFree86 will always exists an open
source
>> separate project.
>> Binaries will be covered under GPL because they link to Cygwin1.dll, but
>> XF86 sources will
>> be under X Consortium license, which means if you could get it compile
>> without Cygwin1.dll
>> linking then your binaries will not be under GPL... which is fair enough.

>That's a somewhat weird decision of the X Consortium. Putting the
>package into the Cygwin distro doesn't change the licensing terms
>of the sources.

>Jus as example, the OpenSSH sources aren't suddenly GPL'd only
>due to the fact that they are in the same directory as the OpenSSH
>Cygwin binaries. They will of course remain BSD licensed.

>Corinna

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>Red Hat, Inc.

It seems to me that including a serparate package with a different license
in the setup program would not violate the XF86 board's concerns.  Projects
do that all the time.

Chris