From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu>
To: cygwin-licensing@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Combining cygwin with non-free portability libraries
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 19:37:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.61.0410141334300.24756@slinky.cs.nyu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041014172502.GA24797@trixie.casa.cgf.cx>
On Thu, 14 Oct 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> 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."
I see. I seem to recall other package submissions that required
downloading libraries that didn't exist on all systems, but I can't find
them now. Must be losing my mind...
Igor
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-14 16:18 Combining Cygwin " Igor Pechtchanski
2004-10-14 17:05 ` Combining cygwin " Christopher Faylor
2004-10-14 17:24 ` Igor Pechtchanski
2004-10-14 17:42 ` Christopher Faylor
2004-10-14 19:37 ` Igor Pechtchanski [this message]
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