On Tue, 20 Nov 2001 06:03, Christopher Faylor wrote: > >Rasjid Wilcox had a very similar idea to winfree86 named winxterm (see > >http://lasp.sourceforge.net/winxterm/ ). He has already produced a > > minimal cygwin + xfree of about 4mb. If we can integrate the two > > projects winfree86 (or whatever its called) will be available much > > sooner. > > This sounds like YA ill-conceived fork. And, oh joy, oh rapture, it is > also YA GPL violation. > > I've Cc'ed Rasjid. Rasjid -- you need to provide the sources for the > binary packages that you are providing, in compliance with the GPL. Just > providing a link to cygwin.com is not sufficient. >
By all means enlighten me about the GPL. On the 24 and 25 August 01, I posted to the list asking about GPL issues etc, and got no reply. (Well, in one email I asked about 'formalities', but what I meant was "Is what I've done okay? Who should I talk to? Please help me I've never put any open source stuff on the web before?". In the other I mentioned the GPL. Both were titled "Screen numbers", which makes sense when you read them.) I provided a link to my project so that people could have a look and inform me of what I needed to do, whether it was already being done or how it might be integrated with the main project. At the time I had only been on the list for 4 days, and was very new to the whole thing. On the whole I still am, so I'm sorry if I've broken some rules. It certainly was with no ill intent. The next step in my project was to remove the need for me to host any binaries anyway, and just to have a script the grabs the minimal set of required files from the cygwin-xfree mirrors. My guess is that the new setup.exe for Cygwin (perhaps with a very minimal amount of tweaking) would be able to do that too, in which case I don't have to do anything! (Except presumably take down the binaries.) If people are interesed, I'm more than happy to explain exactly what I want to achieve, why, and how it could be integrated with the main project. Rasjid.
