Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm Sender: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com From: Chris Faylor Date: Sun, 7 Mar 1999 19:42:16 -0500 To: Stipe Tolj Cc: DJ Delorie , cygwin@cygnus.com Subject: Re: [ANN] Cygwin DEV survey Message-ID: <19990307194216.A12960@cygnus.com> References: <36E2B26B.BEA9DC67@uni-duesseldorf.de> <199903071805.NAA13212@envy.delorie.com> <36E30CB6.1B5F@uni-duesseldorf.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: <36E30CB6.1B5F@uni-duesseldorf.de>; from Stipe Tolj on Mon, Mar 08, 1999 at 12:33:11AM +0100 On Mon, Mar 08, 1999 at 12:33:11AM +0100, Stipe Tolj wrote: >As you mentioned in an later mail, RedHat and SuSE are themselves >distributed under GPL, but they had (in some cases even still do) >distribute software which sources are not freely available, think of Qt >from Troll Tech or the famous XForms lib. This is possible to do with linux. It isn't possible with cygwin. If a program is built using the cygwin stub library (-lcygwin) it *must* be GPLed. This is not an optional thing. It's a legal requirement. This is, of course, not the case for either the linux kernel or the linux C library. cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com