From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 31899 invoked by alias); 16 Jun 2005 15:23:13 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-licensing-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-licensing-owner@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 14744 invoked by uid 22791); 16 Jun 2005 15:13:20 -0000 Message-ID: <14363.193.17.199.5.1118934774.squirrel@193.17.199.5> Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 15:23:00 -0000 Subject: The term _linking_ in the licence From: "David E. Meier" To: cygwin-licensing@cygwin.com User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.3a X-Mailer: SquirrelMail/1.4.3a MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at inetworx.ch X-SW-Source: 2005-q2/txt/msg00000.txt.bz2 Hi list, I am confused about the GPL licence. Both suggested sites for reading before posting to this list about licencing only mention 'linking' with other programs. I face the following siuation: I have written a program in C# that makes use of tools like ssh, rsync and some bash shell built-ins. The C# program is the main .exe and does not link to any of the GPL-programs while building and therefore the C# binary does not contain any cygwin code. The GPL-exe's are called as system calls at runtime via the cmd.exe. Does the C# program need to be redistributed under the GPL as well? Dave