X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Matthew Woehlke Subject: Re: 3PP source code question (IANAL) Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2006 10:56:56 -0600 Lines: 21 Message-ID: References: <31b7d2790611070821u64d88b3fh9b9bff09dadee767@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060909 Thunderbird/1.5.0.7 Mnenhy/0.7.4.0 In-Reply-To: <31b7d2790611070821u64d88b3fh9b9bff09dadee767@mail.gmail.com> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: 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 DePriest, Jason R. wrote: > Are 3PPs that bundle an old version of cygwin1.dll required in any way > to provide the source code of their app so that I can recompile it > with a modern version of cygwin1.dll? IANALE,TYMSIEIAATS (http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#YANALATEYHSMBSI for a hint on decoding that): AFAIK there is also a "commercial" Cygwin license available, which would allow a company to release Cygwin-linked software without Cygwin causing it to become GPL'd. Of course, if said software uses any *other* GPL'd libraries, they would need to have obtained licenses for those as well, or would be GPL'd due to those. Anyone know if there is a list of companies that have Cygwin licenses? (I'd love to know if Perforce has one; I would LOVE to force them hand over their source so we could port it to NSK...) -- Matthew "Try to bring it back in one piece this time." -- Q (MI6) -- 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/