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: <40D022B6.5020306@luukku.com> Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 13:36:38 +0300 From: Jani tiainen User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7a (Windows/20040612) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: License issue References: <200406151352 DOT i5FDq4Xn016176 AT mx3 DOT redhat DOT com> <20040615140643 DOT GS1365 AT cygbert DOT vinschen DOT de> In-Reply-To: <20040615140643.GS1365@cygbert.vinschen.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jun 15 13:51, Avraham H. Fraenkel wrote: > >>If I am writing a short C program, comply it with GCC, and put the exe and the >>cygwin dll in my site, should I add something? > > > Yes, the sources of your application as well as the sources of the > Cygwin DLL, according to the GPL. If you don't distribute the sources, > you don't apply to the licensing. IANAL(Y)... =) Well you exactly don't have to but sources on (same) web site... For further information see: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#TOCDistributeWithSourceOnInternet And few headers downwards. That should answer to most of questions. -- Jani Tiainen -- 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/