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Date:	Fri, 20 Jun 2003 14:23:30 -0700
From:	Brian Dessent <brian AT dessent DOT net>
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Subject:	Re: cygwin license with windows apps?
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Cary Lewis wrote:

> Why is it that linking to the cygwin.dll makes a program covered by GPL?
> 
> On Linux systems, does linking to the open source 'C' libraries, etc. cause
> a program to be covered by the GPL?
> 
> If that were true, then wouldn't every program be GPL? Then you couldn't
> have any Programs that didn't require publishing of source code? But there
> are many, many commercial programs for Linux that don't publish their code.

I think that's why many libraries are licensed under the LGPL, which
drops the requriement that code linked against the library becomes
tainted.

Brian

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