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From: "Arash Partow" <arashp AT hotmail DOT com>
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Subject: Re: License
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 09:45:46 +0000
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Corinna wrote:
>If you distribute a Cygwin DLL binary, you must also provide the sources
>of the DLL.  It's not enough to point to the Cygwin web page.  For further
>details, see http://cygwin.com/licensing.html

And also as I understand the GPL, you should together along with the source
to the cygwin components also provide the source to your commercial 
application,
because according to the GPL it is considered a derivative work.



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