From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2301 invoked by alias); 14 Oct 2004 17:42:34 -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 2290 invoked from network); 14 Oct 2004 17:42:33 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO slinky.cs.nyu.edu) (128.122.20.14) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 14 Oct 2004 17:42:33 -0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by slinky.cs.nyu.edu (8.12.10+Sun/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i9EHgVoQ004938 for ; Thu, 14 Oct 2004 13:42:31 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 19:37:00 -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: <20041014172502.GA24797@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Message-ID: References: <20041014170547.GB24493@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <20041014172502.GA24797@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/msg00009.txt.bz2 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 -- 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