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 X-Originating-IP: [203.219.205.234] X-Originating-Email: [arashp@hotmail.com] X-Sender: arashp@hotmail.com From: "Arash Partow" To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: License Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 09:45:46 +0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 27 Aug 2004 09:45:46.0490 (UTC) FILETIME=[A09D05A0:01C48C1A] X-IsSubscribed: yes Corinna 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 And also as I understand the GPL, you should together along with the source to the cygwin components also provide the source to your commercial application, because according to the GPL it is considered a derivative work. Arash Partow __________________________________________________ Be one who knows what they don't know, Instead of being one who knows not what they don't know, Thinking they know everything about all things. http://www.partow.net -- 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/