From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Suhaib M. Siddiqi" To: "Chris Faylor" , Subject: Re: Does GPL apply without Cygwin stub? [long and off-topic] (was Re: [ANN] Cygwin DEV survey) Date: Sun, 07 Mar 1999 18:18:00 -0000 Message-id: <002b01be6909$e7b69f80$cd3b4ec6@hunda> X-SW-Source: 1999-03/msg00205.html By the way, you typed cygwin@cygnus.com. I hit the reply button and it bounces :-) Suhaib >> >>If the program is not built using the cygwin stub, but /does/ link to the >>DLL using the OS' dynamic linking facility, does it still have to be >>distributed under the GPL? > >I am not an expert but I believe that if you avoid using libcygwin.a and >(more importantly) crt0.o then you'd probably be safe. > The crt0.o and cygwin1.dll comes with another commercial compiler too. I do not think the GPL is valid there, to get that you need to pay first??? Suhaib >cgf > > >-- >Want to unsubscribe from this list? >Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com > > -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Suhaib M. Siddiqi" To: "Chris Faylor" , Subject: Re: Does GPL apply without Cygwin stub? [long and off-topic] (was Re: [ANN] Cygwin DEV survey) Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 19:45:00 -0000 Message-ID: <002b01be6909$e7b69f80$cd3b4ec6@hunda> X-SW-Source: 1999-03n/msg00205.html Message-ID: <19990331194500.5EbtOeL51P-JcnucJ8TRL0kHJzO4CIWnZ3-yUM2JzgI@z> By the way, you typed cygwin@cygnus.com. I hit the reply button and it bounces :-) Suhaib >> >>If the program is not built using the cygwin stub, but /does/ link to the >>DLL using the OS' dynamic linking facility, does it still have to be >>distributed under the GPL? > >I am not an expert but I believe that if you avoid using libcygwin.a and >(more importantly) crt0.o then you'd probably be safe. > The crt0.o and cygwin1.dll comes with another commercial compiler too. I do not think the GPL is valid there, to get that you need to pay first??? Suhaib >cgf > > >-- >Want to unsubscribe from this list? >Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com > > -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com