Subject: Re: cygwin.dll GPL distrib issues
From: [email-masked] ("D. Jeff Dionne")

27 Jun 1997 17:29:52 -0700
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> What are the ramifications of changing the cygwin.dll licence from the
> GPL to the LGPL? Wouldn't this solve the commercial gnu-win32 program
> distribution problem??

Exactly :-(  You can buy a copy from cygnus if you want... They _really_
missed the point on this one.  And I don't think that's just IMHO!

Jeff.

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