From: jqb AT netcom DOT com (Jim Balter)
Subject: Re: Commercial Licensing
29 Mar 1997 20:30:41 -0800
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Reed Kotler Consulting wrote:

> I remember seeing this GPL thread go on and on and frankly I ignored it.
> 
> However, I'm looking at the webpage for cygnus and seeing some
> claim that if you build software using the cygwin.dll that it has
> to become free software too if you don't have the commercial license.
> 
> This seems to be a pretty far fetched reading of the GPL.

Farfetched?  That seems pretty standard, since the issue is actually
libcygwin.a, which incorporates portions of GPL code into
your executable.  The situation is no different from using the bison
parser.  If you still think that's a wrong reading, perhaps you can take
it up on gnu.misc.discuss, where people like to talk about these things.

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