Mail Archives: cygwin/2003/06/20/17:49:22
On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 05:36:03PM -0400, Bill C. Riemers wrote:
>Depending on the country you are distributing in, so long as you don't
>actually distribute the cygwin.dll with your application, this may be
>classified as "Fair Use". You'll have to consultant an attorney as "Fair
>use" varies both by country and state. Some countries don't have a fair use
>clause for proprietary code.
>
>That aside, a fairly common workaround to the GPL is to publish LGPL
>interface code. You then link to the LGPL code instead of to Cygwin
>directly. RedHat can not argue this is disallowed, since they explicitly
>allow "ANY" open source as a section 10 exclusion.
Read the section again. There is no guarantee that the LGPL qualifies.
>The CYGWIN distribution itself contains many packages which are open
>source, but are not GPL. That includes most of the libraries your code
>links to when you compile under cygwin.
>
>Of course another option is to pay them the money...
This thread is officially finished.
If you can't bring yourself to adhere to our license terms but, instead,
are trying to find sneaky ways around the terms, then please do so
in another mailing list.
cgf
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