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From: wildfire AT progsoc DOT uts DOT edu DOT au (Anand Kumria)
Subject: Re: cygwin.dll GPL distrib issues
27 Jun 1997 17:00:50 -0700 :
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Original-To: Bryon Roche <broche AT bensonlaw DOT com>
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On Fri, 27 Jun 1997, Bryon Roche wrote:

> What are the ramifications of changing the cygwin.dll licence from the
> GPL to the LGPL? Wouldn't this solve the commercial gnu-win32 program
> distribution problem??

Yes, but it would probably adversely impact on Cygnus's (potential)
revenue.

Anand.

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