[#4766] Wiki — "Glen Stampoultzis" <trinexus@...>

21 messages 2000/09/04
[#4768] RE: Wiki — "NAKAMURA, Hiroshi" <nahi@...> 2000/09/04

Hi, Glen,

[#4783] Re: Wiki — Masatoshi SEKI <m_seki@...> 2000/09/04

[#4785] Re: Wiki — "NAKAMURA, Hiroshi" <nakahiro@...> 2000/09/05

Howdy,

[#4883] Re-binding a block — Dave Thomas <Dave@...>

16 messages 2000/09/12

[#4930] Perl 6 rumblings -- RFC 225 (v1) Data: Superpositions — Conrad Schneiker <schneik@...>

Hi,

11 messages 2000/09/15

[#4936] Ruby Book Eng. translation editor's questions — Jon Babcock <jon@...>

20 messages 2000/09/16

[#5045] Proposal: Add constants to Math — Robert Feldt <feldt@...>

15 messages 2000/09/21

[#5077] Crazy idea? infix method calls — hal9000@...

This is a generalization of the "in" operator idea which I

17 messages 2000/09/22

[#5157] Compile Problem with 1.6.1 — Scott Billings <aerogems@...>

When I try to compile Ruby 1.6.1, I get the following error:

15 messages 2000/09/27

[ruby-talk:4896] Re: Windows installation issues, etc.

From: Conrad Schneiker <schneik@...>
Date: 2000-09-12 15:10:03 UTC
List: ruby-talk #4896
Hi,

Dave Thomas wrote:
 
> "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@hypermetrics.com> writes:
> 
> > 1. I do think that cygwin1.dll should be packaged with the Ruby
> > installation. It was a significant pain for me to find it on the web.
> > In the end, I had to use the site's search engine, because I
> > couldn't find it by navigating.
> >
> > 2. However, I think there are licensing issues -- if I remember
> > right, the source has to be included along with the DLL. A nuisance
> > from our perspective, and increasing the code bloat.

<Lots of snipping, including extended license quote.>

> I think that this means that we can distribute the .dll via download
> and say that the source is also available for download from the same
> place. In a way that's good - we keep the source to the .dll in step
> with the .dll itself.
> 
> I'm not a lawyer -- anyone else care to comment?

I don't think anyone has a problem with you not being a lawyer. :-)

I think you are on the right track. However, it seems to me that the
simplest way to definitely resolve this issue is one or more (cc:-style)
e-mails to various Cygnus/Redhat contacts. 

-- 
Conrad Schneiker
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