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On Wed, 16 Jul 2003, Elfyn McBratney wrote: > On Wed, 16 Jul 2003, Cary Lewis wrote: > > > As the Cygwin.dll is licensed under GPL, any "Program" that links to it must > > be released under GPL as well. > > Under section 10 of the GPL, if the "program" is OSD compatible then the > "program" is not auto-GPL'd. > > > My question is, what if the "Program" also links to proprietary .dlls that > > are authored by someone else. That source can not be published (I don't even > > have access to it). Furthermore these .dlls are not freely available. > > Are these DLL's Cygwin DLL's ? i.e. not native Windows DLL's. > > > Does that mean that even if I publish all of my source code, I would still > > be violating the GPL because I couldn't publish the source code to the > > proprietary libraries. > > Yes. DISCLAIMER: I am not a lawyer. I don't ever want to be a lawyer. I dislike lawyers. For a definative answer seek advice from a lawyer. -- Elfyn McBratney, EMCB | http://www.nongnu.org/wwwauth/ http://www.emcb.co.uk | http://www.emcb.co.uk/webauth/ elfyn AT emcb DOT co DOT uk | wwwauth-users AT nongnu DOT org -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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