Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm Sender: cygwin-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Date: Sun, 7 Mar 1999 19:24:49 -0500 (EST) From: Tripp Lilley To: Stipe Tolj cc: Michael Hirmke , cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com, dj AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: [ANN] Cygwin DEV survey In-Reply-To: <36E30E97.7310@uni-duesseldorf.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Mon, 8 Mar 1999, Stipe Tolj wrote: > As I mentioned in a previous mail. RedHat and SuSE don't provide ALL > sources for the pre-compiled binaries, so there is some kind of conflict > here towards GPL. Not all of the packages they include are themselves licensed under the GPL. Remember that the GPL covers individual pieces of software, not collections. Thus, a CD can contain GPL'ed software and non-GPL'ed software side by side. The GPL'ed software must include sources, the non-GPL'ed software doesn't have this requirement. However, in the specific case of software built for Cygwin, Cygnus' licensing of the Cygwin CORE (ie: the DLL) is GPL, NOT LGPL. That means that any software linked to the Cygwin DLL /must/ also be GPL'ed, unless the authors/distributors have negotiated an alternative license with Cygnus. NOTE: IANAL, and IANACE (Cygnus Employee), so this is my reading of the Cygwin License page. IASG (Smart Guy), though, so I don't think I'm off base :-) -- Tripp Lilley + Innovative Workflow Engineering, Inc. + (tripp AT iweinc DOT com) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "When applying any correction, you should be swift, firm, without anger or frustration and not carry a grudge." -- jane h. kilberg in http://www.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=448336391 -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com