Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm Sender: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Date: Sun, 7 Mar 1999 20:16:14 -0500 Message-Id: <199903080116.UAA15761@envy.delorie.com> X-Authentication-Warning: envy.delorie.com: dj set sender to dj@envy.delorie.com using -f From: DJ Delorie To: tolj@uni-duesseldorf.de CC: mh@mike.franken.de, cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com In-reply-to: <36E30E97.7310@uni-duesseldorf.de> (message from Stipe Tolj on Mon, 08 Mar 1999 00:41:11 +0100) Subject: Re: [ANN] Cygwin DEV survey References: <7COu0ETppfB@mike.franken.de> <36E30E97.7310@uni-duesseldorf.de> > As I mentioned in a previous mail. RedHat and SuSE don't provide ALL > sources for the pre-compiled binaries, so there is some kind of conflict > here towards GPL. > > We would like to put a collection of software to a CD like RedHat and > SuSE do, if this is violating GPL, so why do they. This is OK because Linux's runtime license is not GPL. It is LGPL, with exceptions which allow non-gpl applications to be built that run under Linux. Since the licencing allows for non-gpl applications, such applications can be built. Since the GPL applies to applications, not aggregates of applications, such applications can be distributed on the same CD as GPL programs. -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com