Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <20020409070053.49861.qmail@web13702.mail.yahoo.com> Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 00:00:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Stanislav Sinyagin Subject: Re: Proprietary Software [WAS: Re: SGML/XML packages available for testing] To: Earnie Boyd Cc: Markus Hoenicka , cygwin-apps@cygwin.com, Earnie Boyd In-Reply-To: <3CB1E70A.BDC351B9@yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii --- Earnie Boyd wrote: > Stanislav Sinyagin wrote: > > > > Hi Markus, > > > > I am using these distributions in my propriatory software: > > > > Your proprietary software will need to have a GPL license if it uses any > library compiled with Cygwin1.dll dependencies. Your proprietary > software will need to have a GPL license if it uses any library that is > itself covered by the GPL unless special clauses are given such as is in > the LGPL. well, these are few Perl scripts that we use internally, and the documentation written in DocBook XML. It's no way a software for sale, nor a package which could be useful to anyone else, because it's really domain-specific. Am I right that in this case I'm free to use the GPL software without any license offence? Thanks for pointing to the issue, it's a really thing to think about. Ragards, Stanislav __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax http://taxes.yahoo.com/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/