From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 23758 invoked by alias); 14 Oct 2004 17:24:34 -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 23712 invoked from network); 14 Oct 2004 17:24:33 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO cgf.cx) (66.30.17.189) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 14 Oct 2004 17:24:33 -0000 Received: by cgf.cx (Postfix, from userid 201) id C0AEC1B3F8; Thu, 14 Oct 2004 13:25:02 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 17:42:00 -0000 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin-licensing@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Combining cygwin with non-free portability libraries Message-ID: <20041014172502.GA24797@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin-licensing@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-licensing@cygwin.com References: <20041014170547.GB24493@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-SW-Source: 2004-q4/txt/msg00008.txt.bz2 On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 01:12:26PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >>What packages are you referring to? I'll pull them immediately. > >Well, "cygwin", for one. It links with Windows system DLLs, which are >most definitely proprietary. I wasn't trying to point to a particular >package, this was indeed a licensing question -- in what way does the >above FAQ entry apply to Cygwin packages in general? This is basic GPL stuff. There is no violation of the package is using system libraries. Otherwise you couldn't use GPLed packages on HP/UX, Solaris, Tru64, etc. "However, as a special exception, the source code distributed need not include anything that is normally distributed (in either source or binary form) with the major components (compiler, kernel, and so on) of the operating system on which the executable runs, unless that component itself accompanies the executable."