Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com Cc: holberg@o-s-c.de Subject: Re: Cygwin compiled DLL under Visual C++ References: <20010219144235.B19549@redhat.com> From: Andrew Markebo Date: 19 Feb 2001 20:59:15 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20010219144235.B19549@redhat.com> Message-ID: Lines: 19 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii / Christopher Faylor wrote: | [...] | Right. And, I have to point out that if you are linking with the Cygwin DLL, | *all* of your source has now become GPLed. If you are providing a commercial | release of your product you had better make sure that you also make the | sources available or you will be in violation of Cygwin's licensing terms. There seems to be an alternative, mentioned in the FAQ: "In particular, if you intend to port a proprietary (non-GPL'd) application using Cygwin, you will need the proprietary-use license for the Cygwin library. This is available for purchase; please contact sales@cygnus.com for more information. All other questions should be sent to the project mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com. " Hmm BTW Anything under the cygwin dist going under LGPL, or how was it.. is the LGPL already ancient, replaced with something else? /Andy -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple