Re: Licensing/Installer Questions

[Michael Banks <chartpacs@mac.com>]

If we have a link on our website to download our product, which contains a few open-source cygwin tools, then is it OK to have a separate link to download the sources of those tools, just to try and save some bandwidth? Would it be OK to have text on the website like "Our product uses a number of open-source tools. To comply with the licesing for these tools, we are required to provide the source code for them. The source code is available upon request, so please contact us at yyy@zzz.com if interested."

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Regards,

Sean Mills
Grantwood Technology, LLC
7255 Old Oak Blvd C405
Middleburg Heights OH 44130
Phone: 440-816-4663
Fax: 440-816-5398

 
On Wednesday, March 01, 2006, at 09:19AM, Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote:

>On Mar  1 08:58, Michael Banks wrote:
>> Hello Corinna,
>> 
>> Thank you for the prompt reply. I'm still a little confused.
>> 
>> 1) Licensing. Could you please explain what "linking against Cygwin" means? I'm guessing that is for trying to port a Unix application to Windows? We're just wanting to use a few of the open-source tools (grep, find, ghostscript, etc.), so I'm guessing we do *not* need to purchase a special license, but we just want to be sure.
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>Linking in the compiler/linker/runtime-loader sense.  Linking against
>Cygwin means building an application which relies on functions provided
>by the Cygwin library.  Roughly, if you application works even if Cygwin
>is not present, you're off the hook.  If your application refuses to
>start without Cygwin, you're not.
>
>> 2) Installer. We could use some specifics on how to comply with the cygwin lincensing.
>
>The installer has nothing to do with licensing.  All tools, which
>are open-sourced should be accompanied with their respective sources.
>The exact style (zip file, tar archive, CD installer, ...) has nothing
>to do with the licensing, except that a user should get the sources
>the same way as they get the binaries.
>
>As for your specific installer packaging questions, they don't belong to
>cygwin-licensing.  Please ask this sort of question on the normal cygwin
>mailing list <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>.
>
>> On Wednesday, March 01, 2006, at 05:02AM, Corinna Vinschen <XXXXXXX-XXXXXX@XXXXXX.XXX> wrote:
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>Corinna
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>Corinna Vinschen                  Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
>Cygwin Project Co-Leader          cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
>Red Hat
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