On Apr 7 21:18, Charles Wilson wrote: > I'm trying to be explicit about licensing in csih for the next release. I > realize it's a little silly to use the GPL on a script (binary == source, > right?), but it may be necessary because part of it is derived from > cygport, which is GPLv3. > > csih (the script part) has been derived from a number of sources: > > # ssh-host-config Copyright 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 Red Hat Inc. > # part of the Cygwin port of OpenSSH > (no explicit licensing)
It's implicitely BSD licensed due to it's nature to be part of the OpenSSH source tree. I will stick to this notion for the ssh-host-config and ssh-user-config script. > # cygport Copyright (C) 2006, 2007 Yaakov Selkowitz > # GPL v3 > (mostly the messaging functions: csih_inform, csih_error, etc) > > # exim-config Copyright Pierre A. Humblet, 2003-2007. > # cron-config Copyright Pierre A. Humblet, 2003-2007. > (no explicit licensing) >[...] > Can I use the MIT/X license for the portions of > cygwin-service-installation-helper.sh that were derived from the config > script(s) under your control? The MIT license is fine with me. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
