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Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 10:39:53 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: cygwin and GPL
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In-Reply-To: <05c801c13509$8b176ab0$710f6ac1@rennes.jouve.fr>; from ngrehalle@rennes.jouve.fr on Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 08:19:24AM +0200

On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 08:19:24AM +0200, Nicolas Grehalle wrote:
> hello,
> 
> I have a law problem.
> I use cygwin on a CDROM to launch Apache and MySQL. This services allow to
> use my application (a CGI program, in C) with a WebBrowser, IE for example,
> on a local machine.
> 
> I can put cygwin sources on my Distribution, but I can't do that with my
> application sources, because this application is a protoype of a commercial
> one.
> 
> Could I distribute cygwin and my application on a commercial CDROM, but
> without the sources of my application (but with all sources and requirements
> of cygwin) ?

You have two choices:
- Put the sources of your application on the CD and publish them under
  some sort of open-source license (GPL, BSD, LGPL, ...)
- Ask RH for a contract (which costs some bucks) and publish no source
  codes at all (Cygwin Library License). For more information see
  http://www.redhat.com/products/support/cygwin/

Corinna

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