From: Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
To: cygwin-licensing@cygwin.com
Cc: cygwin-apps <cygwin-apps@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: GPLv3
Date: Sun, 01 Jul 2007 14:17:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4687B75A.9020700@byu.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <468729AE.DFBAD955@dessent.net>
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According to Brian Dessent on 6/30/2007 10:12 PM:
>> So, what is the consensus - am I allowed to upload tar 1.18, or is cygwin
>> forevermore stuck at tar 1.17 as the last GPLv2 release, because of the
>> fact that building an image of tar 1.18 linked against cygwin1.dll
>> constitutes a license violation?
>
> Remember that the Cygwin license includes an OSI exemption, so as long
> as GPLv3 is eventually OSI certified (as if...) it's fine on the Cygwin
> side. I don't know about the other direction though.
Thanks for the reminder about the exception clause. Since packaging tar
1.18 does not modify the sources to cygwin1.dll, I agree that the GPLv2
exception offered by cygwin is applicable here. I don't think GPLv3 will
have any problem achieving OSI exemption, so I went ahead and uploaded tar
1.18.
- --
Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!
Eric Blake ebb9@byu.net
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-01 14:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-01 3:46 GPLv3 Eric Blake
2007-07-01 4:12 ` GPLv3 Brian Dessent
2007-07-01 14:17 ` Eric Blake [this message]
2007-07-01 14:24 ` GPLv3 Eric Blake
2007-07-02 7:40 ` GPLv3 Corinna Vinschen
2007-07-02 14:40 ` GPLv3 Andrew Schulman
2007-07-02 15:18 ` GPLv3 Corinna Vinschen
2007-07-02 15:29 ` GPLv3 Andrew Schulman
2007-07-02 18:04 ` GPLv3 Corinna Vinschen
2007-07-02 20:09 ` GPLv3 Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
2007-07-02 23:29 ` GPLv3 Dave Korn
2007-07-02 23:52 ` GPLv3 Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
2007-07-03 7:09 ` GPLv3 Corinna Vinschen
2007-07-03 17:45 ` GPLv3 Dave Korn
2007-07-03 18:07 ` GPLv3 Corinna Vinschen
2007-07-02 20:15 ` GPLv3 Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
2007-07-05 2:33 ` GPLv3 Eric Blake
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