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Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 09:59:29 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: LGPL
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On Apr 21 02:17, Bart van der Werf (Bluelive) wrote:
> Will the cygwin.dll become LGPL at one time in the future?
> The viral GPL clause really makes me not want to use it with my BSD
> licensed application.

Your problem.  Read http://cygwin.com/licensing.html again:

  "In accordance with section 10 of the GPL, Red Hat permits programs
   whose sources are distributed under a license that complies with the
   Open Source definition to be linked with libcygwin.a without
   libcygwin.a itself causing the resulting program to be covered by
   the GNU GPL."


Corinna

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