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: <3EF37B52.6B22E6A1@dessent.net> Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 14:23:30 -0700 From: Brian Dessent Organization: My own little world... X-Accept-Language: en,pdf MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: cygwin license with windows apps? References: <3E2D8043936AD611AF7D00508B5E9F4B45E4BE@server3.mobilecom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cary Lewis wrote: > Why is it that linking to the cygwin.dll makes a program covered by GPL? > > On Linux systems, does linking to the open source 'C' libraries, etc. cause > a program to be covered by the GPL? > > If that were true, then wouldn't every program be GPL? Then you couldn't > have any Programs that didn't require publishing of source code? But there > are many, many commercial programs for Linux that don't publish their code. I think that's why many libraries are licensed under the LGPL, which drops the requriement that code linked against the library becomes tainted. Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/