Andy, I just installed Cygwin 1.7, and didn't install any extra packages. Here's what I see:
r...@varuna ~ $ gunzip -c /etc/setup/base-files.lst.gz | grep GPL-3 usr/share/doc/common-licenses/GPL-3.0 usr/share/doc/common-licenses/LGPL-3.0 r...@varuna ~ $ ls -l /usr/share/doc/common-licenses | grep GPL-3 lrwxrwxrwx 1 ross None 7 Mar 31 08:36 GPL -> GPL-3.0 -rw-r--r-- 1 ross None 35147 Feb 16 00:50 GPL-3.0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 ross None 8 Mar 31 08:36 LGPL -> LGPL-3.0 -rw-r--r-- 1 ross None 7639 Feb 16 00:50 LGPL-3.0 r...@varuna ~ $ head /usr/share/doc/common-licenses/GPL-3.0 GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 3, 29 June 2007 Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. <http://fsf.org/> Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this license document, but changing it is not allowed. Preamble The GNU General Public License is a free, copyleft license for r...@varuna ~ $ uname -a CYGWIN_NT-5.1 varuna 1.7.0(0.207/5/3) 2009-03-18 18:41 i686 Cygwin -Ross Andy Koppe wrote On 5/3/2009 1:58 AM -0800: > The basefiles package doesn't have a copy of GPL version 3 in > usr/share/doc/common-licenses. Should it have one, or is a link to the > license on the GNU website as in the output of coreutils deemed > sufficient? > > ls (GNU coreutils) 6.10 > Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc. > License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later > <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html> > > Andy >