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, 26 Aug 2004 11:20:08 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: Giulio Ardoino cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: License In-Reply-To: <20040826165355.70E5.GIULIASTRO@tin.it> Message-ID: References: <20040826162311.70DF.GIULIASTRO@tin.it> <20040826145219.GF27978@cygbert.vinschen.de> <20040826165355.70E5.GIULIASTRO@tin.it> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.39 On Thu, 26 Aug 2004, Giulio Ardoino wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > If you distribute a Cygwin DLL binary, you must also provide the > > sources of the DLL. It's not enough to point to the Cygwin web page. > > For further details, see http://cygwin.com/licensing.html > > Thanks a lot Corinna. > This means I'm allowed to distribute cygwin dll as long as I distribute > it with sources, as I understand. > Let's say I'm writing a commercial program that uses GNU zip under > windows (and therefore must be distributed with cygwin dll), am I > allowed to do this as long as I include cygwin and zip sources? IANAL, but the GPL does talk about linking as separate from invoking the programs using fork/exec. In particular, the following two sections from the GPL FAQ might be relevant: and . As always, please consult a real lawyer when there's any doubt as to the interpretation of the terms of the license. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing." -- Dr. Jubal Harshaw -- 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/