From: fjh@cs.mu.OZ.AU (Fergus Henderson) Subject: Re: The gnu-win32@cygnus.com mailing list 19 Feb 1997 17:26:32 -0800 Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <199702200016.LAA17430.cygnus.gnu-win32@mundook.cs.mu.OZ.AU> Content-Type: text Original-To: aubrey@eden.com Original-Cc: gnu-win32@cygnus.com (gnu-win32) In-Reply-To: <199702191849.MAA08971@natashya.eden.com> from "Aubrey McAuley" at Feb 19, 97 12:39:14 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com Aubrey McAuley, you wrote: > > Fergus, > > Thanks for a very clear statement of the issues. I agree completely. > I have a question regarding your last comment: > > > Yes, the good news is that there seems to be a technical solution: > > there is a version of libcygwin.a that is freely available under a > > license that is compatible with the LGPL. > > What is this version you mention? mingw32? Where can it be found? The version I'm talking about is the one that is distributed with GNAT 3.09, which is available via . Here's what Richard Kenner said about it on comp.lang.ada: | Subject: Re: Gnat 3.09 NT - Legal issues | From: kenner@lab.ultra.nyu.edu (Richard Kenner) | Date: 1997/02/11 | Message-Id: <5dom1k$6n7$1@news.nyu.edu> | References: <32ff443d.1365753@library.airnews.net> | <5dnpk4$iq9@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> | Organization: New York University Ultracomputer Research Lab | Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada | | In article <5dnpk4$iq9@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> fjh@murlibobo.cs.mu.OZ.AU | (Fergus Henderson) writes: | >If the code generated by GNAT for NT/Win95 using cynwin32 really doesn't | >include any of the libcygwin.a code, could you perhaps explain to us | >how (technically speaking) you avoided that? | | 99% of libcygwin.a is automatically-generated jump vectors to | cygwin32.dll, which is GPL'ed, but not included in the generated | executable. The rest of the files used to build that library, plus | the file used to build crt0.o, constitute only a handful of files, | some of which were copyrighted under the Berkeley copyright, which | imposes no restrictions. For the remaining couple of files, which | were tiny, we rebuilt libcygwin.a using the sources of those files | from an earlier version of Cygwin32, when they did not have GPL | copyrights. | | Thefore no code contained in the user's executable is covered by the | unmodified GPL (the GNAT run-time-library sources are covered by a | modified version of the GPL which permits use of the objects, without | restrictions, in user executables). -- Fergus Henderson | "I have always known that the pursuit WWW: | of excellence is a lethal habit" PGP: finger fjh@128.250.37.3 | -- the last words of T. S. Garp. - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".