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 Message-ID: <5D60432AF619D81183C80002A5419F5D07F532@nnhmsw1.cox.co.uk> From: "Hughes, Bill" To: "'cygwin AT cygwin DOT com'" Subject: RE: About Cygwin license Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 14:46:03 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sent: 11 December 2003 14:28 From: Igor Pechtchanski > Common sense dictates that socket connections cannot be thought of as > "linking" (which is what the GPL covers). After all, connecting with a > proprietary ssh client to a GPL'd ssh daemon on Linux doesn't make the > client GPL'd (AFAIK). Now, if your program is actually linked to some of > PostgreSQL DLLs, that's a whole different story... Isn't PostgreSQL under a BSD license anyway so that wouldn't be a worry either... unless this is a Cygwin dll for PostgreSQL? -- 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/