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: <65CAA822B707D211AD430008C7F40FED1F85D8@EXCHANGERSW2> From: "McCunney, Dennis" To: "'PositivePi@aol.com'" Cc: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: RE: -mwindows copyright? Date: Fri, 16 Jul 1999 16:20:18 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > -----Original Message----- > From: PositivePi@aol.com [mailto:PositivePi@aol.com] > Sent: Friday, July 16, 1999 4:06 PM > To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com > Subject: -mwindows copyright? > > I'm using the -mno-cygwin and -mwindows options to compile > my program. I'm also binding to several other windows libs > such as -lwsock32. I want to distribute my programs--as well > as source--entirely public domain. The copyright on all of > the mingw libraries seems to be public domain, so I'm ok > there. But looking at the windows libraries in the source, > some of them have copyrights such as winsup/sysdef/wsock32.def: > --snip-- > ; Exports for WSOCK32 DLL > ; > ; Copyright (C) 1996 Free Software Foundation, Inc. > ; > ; Author: Scott Christley > ; Date: 1996 > ; > ; This file is part of the Windows32 API Library. > ; > ; This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or > ; modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public > ; License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either > ; version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. > --snip-- > Does this mean that if I use -mwindows/-lwsock32 I either > have to distribute my program under GNU, or write my own .def's for > windows API? (which I imagine would be a minor pain) Er, Public Domain explicitly means _no_ copyright. Why is distributing under the GNU liscense a problem? The trouble with releasing software into the public domain is that anyone is free to pick it up, make their own changes, copyright it, and _sell_ it as their own. The GNU copyleft is designed to prevent that sort of thing. ______ Dennis -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com