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 Reply-To: Cygwin List Message-Id: <6.1.0.6.0.20040615155121.03291398@pop.prospeed.net> X-Sender: Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 15:52:49 -0400 To: Britton Kerin , cygwin@cygwin.com From: Larry Hall Subject: Re: is it ok to ship cygwin.dll with an application covered by BSD? In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 03:00 PM 6/15/2004, you wrote: >We have a free radar processing system for which we are trying to release >a windows version. We have obtained permission from our university to >release our code under the BSD license. We would be happy to choose the >GPL, but the lunatic whims of those in charge seem inflexible in this >case. We have tried hard to get the system going using mingwin and the >cygwin.a library, which we understand is ok to use, but it doesn't quite >work, some important libraries fail to build. With cygwin.dll, >everything is beautiful. > >I'm not clear if we are allowed to ship the application with cygwin.dll >though. We could include source code for cygwin.dll, or source code >pointers, or whatever. I am hoping that since cygwin.dll is freely >available, we can ship it with our processor? > >Thanks for any information you can provide, >Britton Kerin I'd recommend checking out , especially the "note" at the bottom. My quick review would suggest that this is the important part as far as you're concerned. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- 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/