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Hi,

I maintain two free packages containing essential cygwin elements:

- COPSSH - OpenSSH Client and Server for Windows (2,7 MB) - http://itefix.n=
o/copssh
- CWRSYNC - Rsync Client and Server for Windows (2,6 MB) - http://itefix.no=
/cwrsync

My goal is to make openssh and rsync easily available on windows, in form o=
f small specialized
installers (I use http://nsis.sourceforge.net at the moment)

Sources of all GPL software used in those packages are available from the s=
ame web-site as binaries
(http://sourceforge.net/projects/sereds).

As you can guess easily, there is an irritation moment here: possibility of=
 cygwin1.dll conflicts.
My installers produce warnings if cygwin or something else dependent on cyg=
win is already installed
on the target machine. However, It is tempting to find an ultimate solution=
 to this problem:
renaming dlls and registry references. I have tested and verified that it i=
s technically possible.=20

Part of cygwin licensing addressing cygwin1.dll says: " Note that this does=
 not apply to the cygwin
DLL itself. If you distribute a (possibly modified) version of the DLL you =
must adhere to the terms
of the GPL, i.e. you must provide sources for the cygwin DLL."

My licensing question is: Would it be a license infringement if I distribut=
e free packages with
renamed dlls and registry references ?

Best regards

Tevfik Karag=FClle
Senior Consultant
ITeF!x Consulting

http://itefix.no