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: Tue, 18 May 1999 17:49:41 -0400 To: Stipe Tolj Cc: cygwin-developers AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Subject: Re: [RFC] apache-cygwin licensing conflicts Message-ID: <19990518174941.C22505@cygnus.com> References: <3741DDE0 DOT 23F4E7CC AT uni-duesseldorf DOT de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary=sm4nu43k4a2Rpi4c X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: <3741DDE0.23F4E7CC@uni-duesseldorf.de>; from Stipe Tolj on Tue, May 18, 1999 at 11:38:40PM +0200 --sm4nu43k4a2Rpi4c Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Tue, May 18, 1999 at 11:38:40PM +0200, Stipe Tolj wrote: >this is a request for comments on the issue of integrating our apache >port to the official Apache Group distribution. I'm currently dealing >with the guys from apache.org to add our cygwin patch to their >distribution. > >At least adding the patch to the source distribution would not violate >any of both -- cygwin nor apache -- licensing agreements since the >cygwin license only applies for binaries, is that right? > >Unfortunatly any binary distrbution would ether violate the cygwin or >apache license, since both _would_ apply to the binary. > >Someone of you "officials" at Cygnus has stated that Cygnus may grand >flexible privilidges at least for special purposes or occations for the >cygwin library license. Since apache is an huge and accepted project and >we would allow Win32 based users to use a posix complatible apache >version beside the commercial Win32 native MSVC version this would be a >great opportunity. > >May it be possible -- regarding Cygnus officials side -- to grand a more >flexible and compatible licensing term to be able to fully support the >cygwin platform within the apache official distrbution? Here's a copy of the CYGWIN_LICENSE that will be showing up in B21. Hopefully, it answers your questions. I don't know if you are planning on distributing a cygwin DLL. If you are then the GPL applies. You must supply or be willing to supply the version of the sources that were used to build the cygwin DLL you are distributing. cgf --sm4nu43k4a2Rpi4c Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=CYGWIN_LICENSE -------------------------------------------------------------------------- This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- *** NOTE *** In accordance with section 10 of the 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 that you can port an Open Source(tm) application to cygwin, and distribute that executable as if it didn't include a copy of libcygwin.a linked into it. Note that this does not apply to the cygwin DLL itself. If you distribute a (possibly modified) version of the DLL you must adhere to the terms of the GPL, i.e., you must provide sources for the cygwin DLL. See http://www.opensource.org/osd.html for the precise Open Source Definition referenced above. If you have questions about any of the above or would like to arrange for other licensing terms, please contact Cygnus using information given below: Cygnus Solutions 1325 Chesapeake Terrace Sunnyvale, CA 94089 USA +1 408 542 9600 hotline: +1 408 542 9601 email: `info AT cygnus DOT com' fax: +1 408 542 9699 --sm4nu43k4a2Rpi4c--