From: reed AT reedkotler DOT com (Reed Kotler Consulting) Subject: Re: Commercial Licensing 30 Mar 1997 19:33:41 -0800 Approved: cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <3.0.32.19970330194136.009bf980.cygnus.gnu-win32@reedkotler.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Sender: reed AT reedkotler DOT com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Original-To: Jim Balter Original-Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com At 02:18 PM 3/29/97 -0800, you wrote: >Reed Kotler Consulting wrote: > >> I remember seeing this GPL thread go on and on and frankly I ignored it. >> >> However, I'm looking at the webpage for cygnus and seeing some >> claim that if you build software using the cygwin.dll that it has >> to become free software too if you don't have the commercial license. >> >> This seems to be a pretty far fetched reading of the GPL. > >Farfetched? That seems pretty standard, since the issue is actually >libcygwin.a, which incorporates portions of GPL code into >your executable. The situation is no different from using the bison >parser. If you still think that's a wrong reading, perhaps you can take >it up on gnu.misc.discuss, where people like to talk about these things. > >-- Well what is libcygwin.a? Presumably just the thunks that call the DLL. So how can that code be under GPL? THe microsoft (and any NT comapatable) linker generates that code. I guess regarding Bison you are talking about the shell code for bison. Then what about libc.a from GNU? It seems that almost anything ever build with GNU would fall under GPL. Thats a pretty novel reading of the GPL though I guess it's discussed somewhere by people that care. reed Reed Kotler http://www.reedkotler.com home of a nice unix like toolset for windows NT/95 http://www.justjazz.com home of a jazz musicians discussion list - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".