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: <36E5C12D.5017@uni-duesseldorf.de> Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 01:47:41 +0100 From: Stipe Tolj Reply-To: tolj@uni-duesseldorf.de Organization: Department of Economical Computer Science, University of Cologne, Germany X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: DJ Delorie CC: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: [ANN] Cygwin DEV survey References: <36E2B26B.BEA9DC67@uni-duesseldorf.de> <199903071805.NAA13212@envy.delorie.com> <36E30CB6.1B5F@uni-duesseldorf.de> <199903080113.UAA15742@envy.delorie.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit DJ Delorie wrote: > > The reason I specified full sources for all application is because > when you build an application with cygwin, the resulting binary always > includes sources from cygwin (namely, the startup code and import > library stubs), so all applications thus compiled must be distributed > under the terms of the GPL. ok, this point is quite clear and should be accepted by anyone using cygwin, me too. So I suppose we will compile a set of software which is definitly distributed under the terms of GPL. Now what about the xforms 0.881 cygwin pre-compiled port we have provided to the xforms authors. They will only allow distribution of the pre-compiled binary but not the patched cygwin port sources. This would mean they would violate GPL since we have used cygwin b20.1 to compile it?! Regards, Sttipe -- Stipe Tolj Cygwin Porting Project -- "We build UNIX on top of Windows" http://www.student.uni-koeln.de/cygwin Department of Economical Computer Science University of Cologne, Germany -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com