> While I appreciate the GPL, I don't think it makes much sense in this > case. Why provide source to compile your own cygwin when it's publically > available in many places already? Likewise for rsync.
Wasn't a simple hyperlink to the original sources on your page and in a README sufficient? After all everyone have "some access" to internet nowadays, having an URL is very much like having the file itself. Just my 2 cents, but I am no lawyer and cannot comprehend all the implications of GPL, tough I read it many times. A problem remains: wherever you have a full cygwin or not, you're usnig bash or not... you must use "cygwin posix command line", so that using "rsync alone" is not that much a good idea IMHO... Go figure that C:\WinnT\sYsTem32 is called /cygdrive/c/WINTT/system32... > At the moment, it's "get everything, or you're on your own." That will change in the > very near future. Anyway the "new setup" it under its way (setup has now a new mantainer, thanks Robert) and it WILL definitely support "required packages" for each package, so that an user that only needs rsync just selects rsync and it will auto-install zlib an all that is required (in fact I must install on a clean system to check what is actually needed just today). P.S.: maybe we are a bit too much off topic... -- Lapo 'Raist' Luchini [EMAIL PROTECTED] (PGP & X.509 keys available) http://www.lapo.it (ICQ UIN: 529796)