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Date:	Sun, 14 Mar 2004 04:23:02 +0100 (CET)
From:	jnuyens AT linuxbe DOT com
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To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject:	Cygwin distribution question.
Message-ID:	<Pine.LNX.4.58.0403140354230.9932@koi.linspot.com>
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Hello,

A customer of ours wants to re-distribute cygwin.dll and a lot of
utilities along with his proprietary software tools.
No linking occurs out of the source code to the provided applications.
However, the proprietary application modifies the configuration files of
bundled services and restarts them and uses scripts to interface with
these services.

Does this mean the customer needs to buy the non-GPL license for the
Cygwin.dll or move to MinGW?
We assume that this is not necessary because no modification of GPLed
source code takes place, but our customer is a little bit nervous about
the interpretation of 'derived works'.
Can you confirm our assumption?

Thank you!

Greetings,
Jasper.
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Jasper Nuyens
Managing Director, Linux Belgium
http://www.linuxbe.com
Phone: +32 16 584171
GSM: +32 478 978967B

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