Mailing-List: contact cygwin-developers-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm Sender: cygwin-developers-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin-developers AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com From: Chris Faylor Date: Sun, 9 May 1999 23:23:13 -0400 To: cygwin-developers AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Subject: Changes to cygwin licensing terms Message-ID: <19990509232313.A5045@cygnus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i I thought that I would run the following change by everyone here before I spring it on the general mailing list. I've just gotten approval to add this paragraph to the cygwin license: ----- Note that, in accordance with section 10 of the GNU GPL, Cygnus permits programs whose sources are distributed under a license that complies with the Open Source(tm) definition to be linked with libcygwin.a without libcygwin.a itself causing the resulting program to be covered by the GNU GPL. This means tha, if you provide the source code for your program you are not required to include the software for the cygwin DLL as well. If this is unclear, please contact info AT cygnus DOT com for clarification. ----- I started the initiative to make this change when the license controversy was raging in the cygwin mailing list. Due to various boring internal reasons, the usually speedy wheels of approval at Cygnus were somewhat bogged down so this has taken more than a month to work its way back to me. Hopefully everyone will agree that this is a good thing. Long experience has shown me that this may be a very naive assumption on my part, however. Does anyone have any comments on this, positive or negative? -chris