From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 12944 invoked by alias); 14 Oct 2004 17:12:29 -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 12938 invoked from network); 14 Oct 2004 17:12:28 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO slinky.cs.nyu.edu) (128.122.20.14) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 14 Oct 2004 17:12:28 -0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by slinky.cs.nyu.edu (8.12.10+Sun/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i9EHCQoQ001758 for ; Thu, 14 Oct 2004 13:12:26 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 17:24:00 -0000 From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin-licensing@cygwin.com To: cygwin-licensing@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Combining cygwin with non-free portability libraries In-Reply-To: <20041014170547.GB24493@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Message-ID: References: <20041014170547.GB24493@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> 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/msg00007.txt.bz2 On Thu, 14 Oct 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 12:18:47PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > >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? > > If there are Cygwin packages which are bundling libraries that do not > include source then they shouldn't be in the distribution. Not bundling. Linking. The libraries *are* obtained separately. > 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? Igor -- 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