From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Henry J. Cobb" To: dj@delorie.com Cc: Ssiddiqi@InspirePharm.Com, cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com 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: <13115.947490287.3@NO-ID-FOUND.mhonarc.org> References: <008f01be69b6$f4fa6ed0$29acdfd0@InspirePharm.Com> <199903082247.RAA11818@envy.delorie.com> X-SW-Source: 1999-03n/msg00265.html >However, this does NOT mean that the cygwin1.dll they include is a >GPL'd product - you must treat it like any other proprietary software, >and neither copy nor redistribute it, nor use it for anything other >than running their applictions. Ergo, if you buy such a product, you MUST NOT run any other software that loads the cygwin1.dll, because either you would be making their product load the GPL'd dll or your GPL software would be loading the license restricted dll. At least Big Blue thought at least this far and required you to rename and trim out their C++ library DLLs for your products. -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com