Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 01:38:20 +0200 From: Marcel Telka To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Question about Cygwin License Message-ID: <20030619233820.GF7219@tortuga.etc.sk> References: <3E2D8043936AD611AF7D00508B5E9F4B45E45C AT server3 DOT mobilecom DOT com> <20030619221316 DOT GC7219 AT tortuga DOT etc DOT sk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 06:46:03PM -0400, Sam Steingold wrote: > > * Honorable Marcel Telka writes: > > > > On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 05:51:44PM -0400, Cary Lewis wrote: > > > I want to use cygwin with a proprietary system. > > > > > > As I do not want to publish my source code, I know I need a "breakout" > > > license from RedHat. > > > > > > I am not changing cygwin, I am simply using the cygwin.dll to get a Unix > > > based system to run under Windows. > > > > Cite from GNU GPL : > > > > Activities other than copying, distribution and modification are not > > covered by this License; they are outside its scope. The act of > > running the Program is not restricted, and the output from the Program > > is covered only if its contents constitute a work based on the Program > > (independent of having been made by running the Program). Whether that > > is true depends on what the Program does. > > linking against a GNU GPL (not LGPL!) library makes your program GPL, > even if the library is dynamic (DLL). > > > > therefore, if you distribute a program which relies on cygwin.dll > (which, IIUC, is released under the GNU GPL), you have to either What about this situation? My program depends on cygwin.dll, but there are two implementations of the library: one with GNU/GPL license and another one with, say, BSD-like license. Should I (in this situation) release my program under GNU/GPL terms? > release the source code under GNU GPL, or buy a different license from > the (C) holder (RedHat). > > IANAL. -- +-------------------------------------------+ | Marcel Telka e-mail: marcel AT telka DOT sk | | homepage: http://telka.sk/ | | jabber: marcel AT jabber DOT sk | +-------------------------------------------+ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/