Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 17:38:38 +0100 From: Elfyn McBratney X-X-Sender: elfyn@ellixia Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: RE: cygwin license with windows apps? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <3E2D8043936AD611AF7D00508B5E9F4B45E4BE@server3.mobilecom.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Fri, 20 Jun 2003, Elfyn McBratney wrote: > On Fri, 20 Jun 2003, Cary Lewis wrote: > > > Some more questions: > > > > Why is it that linking to the cygwin.dll makes a program covered by GPL? > > Because the GPL is what's known as a "viral" license, infecting anything that > makes use if it. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ makes use of the licensed software. I really shouldn't do a single thing when I;m ill. :-) Elfyn > > > On Linux systems, does linking to the open source 'C' libraries, etc. cause > > a program to be covered by the GPL? > > No, because (in the case of glibc) the GNU C Library is LGPL not GPL. > > *long explanation deleted* > > > If that were true, then wouldn't every program be GPL? Then you couldn't > > have any Programs that didn't require publishing of source code? But there > > are many, many commercial programs for Linux that don't publish their code. > > > > For what it's worth, I would like to very much like to continue using > > Cygwin, I think that there is a lot of power in it. I simply want to do the > > right thing in terms of the licensing and additionally respect the > > constraints that I have in terms of other stake holders and whether I can > > publish my source. > > > > I have trouble believing that there are systems out there that use cygwin in > > a commercial fashion that have not purchased the breakout license. -- Elfyn McBratney Systems Administrator ABCtales.com / Ubertales.co.uk Show us yer bulk: biteme@is.ubertales.co.uk -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/