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Date:	Thu, 26 Aug 2004 18:48:50 +0200
From:	Reini Urban <rurban AT x-ray DOT at>
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To:	Giulio Ardoino <giuliastro AT tin DOT it>
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Subject:	Re: License
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Giulio Ardoino schrieb:
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>If you distribute a Cygwin DLL binary, you must also provide the sources
>>of the DLL.  It's not enough to point to the Cygwin web page.  For further
>>details, see http://cygwin.com/licensing.html
> 
> Thanks a lot Corinna.
> This means I'm allowed to distribute cygwin dll as long as I distribute
> it with sources, as I understand.
> Let's say I'm writing a commercial program that uses GNU zip under
> windows (and therefore must be distributed with cygwin dll), am I
> allowed to do this as long as I include cygwin and zip sources?

There's no such "GNU zip" thing. There's only a GNU gzip thing.
zip is infozip and has a much more liberal license than GPL.
And there exist native win32 versions for that.

The rest is correct, and it is very easy to provide just a link
to cygwin setup.exe.

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Reini Urban
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