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From: "Karsten Fleischer" <K DOT Fleischer AT omnium DOT de>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: ksh on cygwin
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 02:03:43 +0100
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> I'm not sure but I don't think it matters if the sources are
> proprietary.  Maybe this is getting incredibly picky but if you adapted
> algorithms from other non-GPL compliant programs then that is probably
> an issue, too.

I don't know if something like "If the first four bytes of a file are
'poop', then hold your breath" is considered an algorithm.
I've contacted Glenn Fowler regarding this issue.
He'll confirm what I've said.

> This wouldn't be an issue for the Berkeley license, though.  I don't know
> what the AST tools use for licensing.

OK, once again:
http://www.research.att.com/sw/license/ast-open.html

Karsten


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