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Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2004 08:33:42 +0300
From: Jani tiainen <redetin AT luukku DOT com>
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Bobby McNulty Junior wrote:
> I'm build Cygwin on Linux. This will be transfered to Windows.
> In other other words, guys, I'm back to pragramming for Cygwin.
> Do I have to turn in a copyright assignment? i don't work for a company. 
> I'm freelance.
> This is my hobby.
> Bobby

Where these started to came from..?

Don't confuse copyright and license. They are two different subjects and 
partly different laws applies to them, copyright is covered by copyright 
laws, license is basically contract between you and other people and is 
covered by contract (or similiar) laws.

If you compile it under Cygwin _and_ link your app against _any_ GPL 
library (including cygwin1.dll in Windoze) your application license must 
be GPL. You still hold copyright for your original work (and your later 
modifications) and thus can do anything with that piece of code eg. 
there is some examples (like MySQL) that uses dual licensing, one which 
is GPL and one commercial.

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Jani Tiainen

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