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: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 09:59:29 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: LGPL Message-ID: <20040421075929.GB4092@cygbert.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <1082505286.5949.ezmlm@cygwin.com> <001201c42735$fa3f2a10$0100a8c0@bluelive> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <001201c42735$fa3f2a10$0100a8c0@bluelive> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i On Apr 21 02:17, Bart van der Werf (Bluelive) wrote: > Will the cygwin.dll become LGPL at one time in the future? > The viral GPL clause really makes me not want to use it with my BSD > licensed application. Your problem. Read http://cygwin.com/licensing.html again: "In accordance with section 10 of the GPL, Red Hat permits programs whose sources are distributed under a license that complies with the Open Source definition to be linked with libcygwin.a without libcygwin.a itself causing the resulting program to be covered by the GNU GPL." Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Co-Project Leader 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/