Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com From: "Suhaib M. Siddiqi" To: "Kendall Bennett" , Subject: RE: Things you can do with Cygwin Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 20:08:35 -0400 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <20000502134396.SM00160@KENDALLB> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 > > The GPL doesn't talk about programs, it talks about "works". It > > doesn't matter how the two parts communicate. The legal > > definition of "works", I've been told, is pretty clear, so it would > > be easy for the court to decide if your tricks were a violation or > > not, if it ever came down to that. > > If that were the case, then a GPL'ed X-server would simply not be > suitable > for running anything but GPL code. Cygwin/XFree is one such server. > Kendall, I disagree. If that is true, then nothing could be compiled by GCC but a GPL'ed code, No software, but GPl'ed, should be used on Linux because it contains a lots of GPL'ed stuff. Doe not make much sense to me personally. Suhaib -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com