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 Message-ID: <19990309061930.63879@mundook.cs.mu.OZ.AU> Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 06:19:30 +1100 From: Fergus Henderson To: earnie_boyd@yahoo.com Cc: cygwin users Subject: Re: Does GPL apply without Cygwin stub? References: <19990308163406.22270.rocketmail@send101.yahoomail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.88 In-Reply-To: <19990308163406.22270.rocketmail@send101.yahoomail.com>; from Earnie Boyd on Mon, Mar 08, 1999 at 08:34:06AM -0800 On 08-Mar-1999, Earnie Boyd wrote: > ---Chris Faylor wrote: > 8< > > If they are just distributing the crt0.o module and cygwin1.dll then > they > > must make source code available for both. > 8< > > So does this mean that if I supply my own crt0.o module that my source > code doesn't have to be made available? You'd also have to supply your own libcygwin.a. I believe that at least one release of the GNU Ada compiler gnat for Windows did exactly that. This was back around version b17, when Cygnus had just changed the license. ACT took the sources for libcygwin.a from b16, which I think were public domain, and modified them a bit to make them work with the DLL from b17. If you do something like that, then it's probably legal. However, this is a rather gray area; it is not _entirely_ clear that this would be legal. P.S. I am not a lawyer; this is discussion, not legal advice; if you need legal advice, you should consult an attourney; #include yadda yadda yadda... -- 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. -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com