cygwinb19 and mysql-win32

["Robert Collins" <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>]

Is there anyone here who has done a lot with MySQL? 
Anyone know whether they've licenced Cygwin b19 from Redhat? (Chris?)

I've just noticed that they include a dll call cygwinb19.dll in
mysql/lib for their win32 builds. The readme in that directory refers to
VC5 and makes no comment on the cygwinb19.dll file.

And their manuals only reference is that to use the mysqlc (mysql client
linked to cygwin) one must copy the cygwin b19.dll to the windows system
directory.

Oh, and there is no source for cygwinb19.dll in the binary distribution,
nor any specific notice that cygwinb19.dll as included has it's source
available in their source tarball. (there is the usual COPYING file for
the whole thing though).

Hmmmm. AAARRRRGGGGHHH. Mysql isn't exactly a low profile open-source
project. I haven't downloaded their 15 MB .zip source file to check
whether the cygwin dll source is included or not - which is why I've
mailed here in case someone else has and can confirm or deny. Their unix
source file is ~11Mb, and I suspect that the 4Mb difference is more than
just tar.gz getting better compression.

So there are two issues here:
1) Why are they distributing b19?!?!?!??!
2) Are they in fact distributing the source.

Rob

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