From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 28911 invoked by alias); 14 Oct 2004 16:18:50 -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 28904 invoked from network); 14 Oct 2004 16:18:50 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO slinky.cs.nyu.edu) (128.122.20.14) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 14 Oct 2004 16:18:50 -0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by slinky.cs.nyu.edu (8.12.10+Sun/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i9EGImoQ027024 for ; Thu, 14 Oct 2004 12:18:48 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 16:18:00 -0000 From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin-licensing@cygwin.com To: cygwin-licensing@cygwin.com Subject: Combining Cygwin with non-free portability libraries Message-ID: Importance: Normal MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.39 X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2004-q4/txt/msg00003.txt.bz2 Incidentally, while perusing the GPL FAQ, I stumbled upon . There seem to be several cases of Cygwin packages that may do something similar (in fact, Cygwin itself technically does that :-D). Are there implications? Should Cygwin have a clause in the licensing explicitly allowing some particular instances of this, just to make sure things work smoothly? Igor P.S. Any lawyers reading this list? ;-) -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing." -- Dr. Jubal Harshaw