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On 2016-05-13 10:38, Warren Young wrote:
> On May 13, 2016, at 8:02 AM, Ben Altman wrote:
>> I am not sure what is involved in packaging ksh with Cygwin
>> I was under the impression that if the licensing wasn't GNU it would be a
>> problem even though it is open source.
>
> Not exactly.  The license merely has to be *compatible* with the GPL as far
> as binary distribution goes, since the binaries distributed in the Cygwin
> package repo are linked to cygwin1.dll, which is GPL’d.

Please review: https://cygwin.com/licensing.html

Cygwin's license contains a linking exception for software licensed 
under terms which satisfy the Open Source Definition 
<https://opensource.org/osd>.  For our purposes, a good reference is 
<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:Main>.

> But after taking a peek at the AST license, it’s pretty clear it’s incompatible
> with the GPL.

True, but it is Open Source and therefore would be acceptable.

-- 
Yaakov

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