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Re: mingw path/mount handling code (Was: Re: Practical method for automatic Cygwin install?)
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 10:36:21 +0100
- Subject: Re: mingw path/mount handling code (Was: Re: Practical method for automatic Cygwin install?)
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On Dec 9 07:48, Brian Dessent wrote:
> The way I see it, in a perfect world, this library would be BSD/MIT
> licensed, or at the very least LGPL, so that "foreign" programs by 3PPs
> could use it unencumbered, so that they can function better with Cygwin.
>
> However, winsup/utils/path.cc is under the Cygwin license. I don't
> suppose there is any chance of getting Redhet to relicense parts of the
> utils directory?
It's in the loop, sort of. I'm working on getting the utils directory
relicensed for about 18 months now. Progress is somewhat slow, though...
Corinna
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