From: dahms AT ifk20 DOT mach DOT uni-karlsruhe DOT de
Subject: Re: using cygnus-gnu-win32 for commercial projects.
23 Jan 1997 19:21:08 -0800
Approved: cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com
Distribution: cygnus
Message-ID: <009AED21.C4513100.8124.cygnus.gnu-win32@ifk20.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de>
Original-To: Richard DOT Watts AT cl DOT cam DOT ac DOT uk
Original-CC: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com, dahms AT ifk20 DOT mach DOT uni-karlsruhe DOT de
Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com

Hi, you wrote:

:  Is there any chance of excepting the libraries and putting them
: under the LGPL ? There is quite a bit of interesting free software
: out there that is distributed under a more general license than
: the GPL (eg. Berkeley copyright,
[...]

Exactly what I wanted to say!
So far I happily worked under GPL, LGPL and Berkeley style.
Cygnus are GNU people and should know the pros and cons 8-)

I'd like to deliver an executable together with cygwin.dll binary only,
either the original DLL or a self compiled version, maybe with bug fixes
or things missed now. I'll freely contribute the sources of any bug fixes
or additions to the DLL, but nothing else. Is that feasible and fair enough?
I'm not a lawyer, so I'm not completely sure that the LGPL allows this!

See: http://www.fsf.org/copyleft/lgpl.html


Bye, Heribert (dahms AT ifk20 DOT mach DOT uni-karlsruhe DOT de)
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