From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 12310 invoked by alias); 1 Mar 2006 14:19:17 -0000 Received: (qmail 9993 invoked by uid 22791); 1 Mar 2006 14:15:51 -0000 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FORGED_RCVD_HELO,HOT_NASTY X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2006 14:19:00 -0000 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin-licensing@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Licensing/Installer Questions Message-ID: <20060301141544.GS3184@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin-licensing@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-licensing@cygwin.com References: <3816256.1141199172470.JavaMail.chartpacs@mac.com> <20060301095501.GK3184@calimero.vinschen.de> <9149702.1141221528157.JavaMail.chartpacs@mac.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <9149702.1141221528157.JavaMail.chartpacs@mac.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i 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 X-SW-Source: 2006-q1/txt/msg00010.txt.bz2 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. 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 . > On Wednesday, March 01, 2006, at 05:02AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > [...] Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat