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: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 17:00:57 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: "'cygwin@cygwin.com'" Subject: Re: About Cygwin license Message-ID: <20031211160057.GQ1941@cygbert.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: "'cygwin@cygwin.com'" References: <5D60432AF619D81183C80002A5419F5D07F532@nnhmsw1.cox.co.uk> <6.0.1.1.0.20031211095014.039aa6c0@127.0.0.1> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <6.0.1.1.0.20031211095014.039aa6c0@127.0.0.1> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i On Dec 11 09:59, Larry Hall wrote: > Also, as > points out, it doesn't matter what license the software distributed with > Cygwin is. If it uses cygwin1.dll, which *is* GPL'd, it's GPL'd. *Sic*, no. Read again under *** Note ***. Basically, if the application is open source, it keeps it's licensing. This is important since, for instance, the OpenSSH team wouldn't want OpenSSH being under GPL license and would therefore vehemently (and rightfully) protest against any linking with libcygwin.a. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- 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/