Re: Changes to cygwin licensing terms

[Chris Faylor <cgf@cygnus.com>]

On Mon, May 10, 1999 at 04:22:34PM -0500, Mumit Khan wrote:
>Corinna Vinschen <corinna.vinschen@cityweb.de> writes:
>> Chris Faylor wrote:
>> > [... licensing changes ...]
>> > Does anyone have any comments on this, positive or negative?
>> 
>> Only positive: This _is_ a good thing!
>
>Seconded.

Phew.

I've made a few more changes to the licensing file.  DJ has
pointed out that all of the additional points raised are already
covered by the GPL but I think that it can't hurt to have a one
or two sentence summary.

Btw, apologies for tnis essentially off-topic post.  I just wanted
to make sure that I wasn't doing anything too stupid before I
unleashed this on the general mailing list.

-chris

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