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Re: maybe-ITP: bsdiff


On May 16 10:18, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Mon, May 16, 2005 at 01:04:54PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >If in doubt, don't put it into the distro.  There is doubt, apparently.
> 
> I haven't been reading this too closely but I don't see why there's a
> problem.  If the sources are being distributed along with the binaries
> then the letter of the GPL is being maintained.  Unless you are
> violating the BSDPL license terms and think someone is going to come
> after you as a result, I don't see what the package's license terms have
> to do with anything.

The problem is that it's not clear if BSDPL is an OSS license in the sense
which is covered by the Cygwin license excemtption according to section 10
of the GPL.


Corinna

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