From:	fjh AT cs DOT mu DOT OZ DOT AU (Fergus Henderson)
Subject:	GPL issues: an alternative
14 Feb 1997 21:44:22 -0800 :
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The cygwin.dll file is covered by the GPL, but applications that
use it are not necessarily "derived works".

The only GPL'd code that is statically linked into your executable from
the cygwin library is the code in libcygwin.a.  There is an alternative
version of `libcygwin.a' that comes with GNAT (the GNU Ada compiler)
version 3.09.  That version of libcygwin.a is not GPL'd.  It is based
in part of the libcygwin.a from 16.1, but it works fine with the cygwin.dll
from 17.1.

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