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From:	Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>
Date:	Sun, 7 Mar 1999 19:42:16 -0500
To:	Stipe Tolj <tolj AT uni-duesseldorf DOT de>
Cc:	DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>, cygwin AT cygnus DOT com
Subject:	Re: [ANN] Cygwin DEV survey
Message-ID:	<19990307194216.A12960@cygnus.com>
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In-Reply-To:	<36E30CB6.1B5F@uni-duesseldorf.de>; from Stipe Tolj on Mon, Mar 08, 1999 at 12:33:11AM +0100

On Mon, Mar 08, 1999 at 12:33:11AM +0100, Stipe Tolj wrote:
>As you mentioned in an later mail, RedHat and SuSE are themselves
>distributed under GPL, but they had (in some cases even still do)
>distribute software which sources are not freely available, think of Qt
>from Troll Tech or the famous XForms lib.

This is possible to do with linux.  It isn't possible with cygwin.

If a program is built using the cygwin stub library (-lcygwin) it *must*
be GPLed.  This is not an optional thing.  It's a legal requirement.

This is, of course, not the case for either the linux kernel or the
linux C library.

cgf

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