Re: Gow, Cygwin alternative refers to GNU programs as open source UNIX tools

[Jean Louis]

* Kaz Kylheku (gnu-misc-discuss) <936-846-2769@kylheku.com> [2020-10-27 22:13]:
> On 2020-10-27 07:43, Jean Louis wrote:
> > On this page accessible with LibreJS turned on:
> > https://github.com/bmatzelle/gow/wiki
> > 
> > There is useful tool Gow that runs GNU programs on Windows, quote:
> > 
> > Gow - The lightweight alternative to Cygwin
> 
> There is a case to be made here that the project is GPL violating;
> it's shipping compiled GNU programs without any clue as to how
> the user can re-build that from scratch.
> 
> I see only compiled binaries in the Gow repo; I don't see any build
> scripts or instructions how rebuild it from scratch: how the
> binaries were obtained.
> 
> It seems to be shipping MSYS DLL's, so it appears to be a MinGW
> derivative.

I did not notice it. There are no sources on Github, just binaries and
there is Gow license which is contradictory to GPL license making it
unclear that it is majority GNU programs and GPL license:
https://github.com/bmatzelle/gow/blob/master/licenses/Gow-License.txt

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I will open another issue.

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Jean Louis