From: dagenais AT vlsi DOT polymtl DOT ca (Michel Dagenais) Subject: Re: Cygnus Cygwin32 Press Release 1/21/97 12 Feb 1997 18:54:46 -0800 Approved: cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <9702122041.AA20054.cygnus.gnu-win32@gutrune.vlsi.polymtl.ca> Original-To: Richard DOT Watts AT cl DOT cam DOT ac DOT uk, gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com In-Reply-To: <E0vufKM-0006bq-00@canada.cl.cam.ac.uk> (message from Richard Watts on Wed, 12 Feb 1997 14:06:26 +0000) Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com I presume that you're considering linking with cygwin.dll to be making a derivative work[1], and if so this would seem to indicate that you must make sources available to anyone who wants them (indeed, you could argue that it institutes a duty of distribution). Apparently cygwin32 was not under GPL up to version 16. The sudden copyright change may have misled some users about the potential interest of gnu-win32 for them and thus their involvement in beta testing it. In any case one could stick with version 16. - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".