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: Sun, 14 Mar 2004 04:23:02 +0100 (CET) From: jnuyens AT linuxbe DOT com X-X-Sender: jnuyens AT koi DOT linspot DOT com To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Cygwin distribution question. Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Hello, A customer of ours wants to re-distribute cygwin.dll and a lot of utilities along with his proprietary software tools. No linking occurs out of the source code to the provided applications. However, the proprietary application modifies the configuration files of bundled services and restarts them and uses scripts to interface with these services. Does this mean the customer needs to buy the non-GPL license for the Cygwin.dll or move to MinGW? We assume that this is not necessary because no modification of GPLed source code takes place, but our customer is a little bit nervous about the interpretation of 'derived works'. Can you confirm our assumption? Thank you! Greetings, Jasper. -- Jasper Nuyens Managing Director, Linux Belgium http://www.linuxbe.com Phone: +32 16 584171 GSM: +32 478 978967B -- 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/