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From: "Suhaib M. Siddiqi" <ssiddiqi AT inspirepharm DOT com>
To: "Kendall Bennett" <KendallB AT scitechsoft DOT com>,
        <cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>
Subject: RE: Things you can do with Cygwin
Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 20:08:35 -0400
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> > The GPL doesn't talk about programs, it talks about "works".  It
> > doesn't matter how the two parts communicate.  The legal
> > definition of "works", I've been told, is pretty clear, so it would
> > be easy for the court to decide if your tricks were a violation or
> > not, if it ever came down to that.
>
> If that were the case, then a GPL'ed X-server would simply not be
> suitable
> for running anything but GPL code. Cygwin/XFree is one such server.
>

Kendall,

I disagree.  If that is true, then nothing could be compiled by GCC but a
GPL'ed
code, No software, but GPl'ed, should be used on Linux because it contains a
lots of GPL'ed stuff.

Doe not make much sense to me personally.

Suhaib




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