From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Chris Faylor To: Stipe Tolj Cc: DJ Delorie , cygwin@cygnus.com Subject: Re: [ANN] Cygwin DEV survey Date: Sun, 07 Mar 1999 16:41:00 -0000 Message-id: <19990307194216.A12960@cygnus.com> In-reply-to: < 36E30CB6.1B5F@uni-duesseldorf.de >; from Stipe Tolj on Mon, Mar 08, 1999 at 12:33:11AM +0100 References: <36E2B26B.BEA9DC67@uni-duesseldorf.de> <199903071805.NAA13212@envy.delorie.com> <36E30CB6.1B5F@uni-duesseldorf.de> <36E30CB6.1B5F@uni-duesseldorf.de> X-SW-Source: 1999-03/msg00199.html On Mon, Mar 08, 1999 at 12:33:11AM +0100, Stipe Tolj wrote: >As you mentioned in an later mail, RedHat and SuSE are themselves >distributed under GPL, but they had (in some cases even still do) >distribute software which sources are not freely available, think of Qt >from Troll Tech or the famous XForms lib. This is possible to do with linux. It isn't possible with cygwin. If a program is built using the cygwin stub library (-lcygwin) it *must* be GPLed. This is not an optional thing. It's a legal requirement. This is, of course, not the case for either the linux kernel or the linux C library. cgf -- 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: Chris Faylor To: Stipe Tolj Cc: DJ Delorie , cygwin@cygnus.com Subject: Re: [ANN] Cygwin DEV survey Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 19:45:00 -0000 Message-ID: <19990307194216.A12960@cygnus.com> References: <36E2B26B.BEA9DC67@uni-duesseldorf.de> <199903071805.NAA13212@envy.delorie.com> <36E30CB6.1B5F@uni-duesseldorf.de> X-SW-Source: 1999-03n/msg00199.html Message-ID: <19990331194500.MCv37LK7obeihO5dj2vjB_Y2SEQ4QXigLhTJFUDd0L0@z> On Mon, Mar 08, 1999 at 12:33:11AM +0100, Stipe Tolj wrote: >As you mentioned in an later mail, RedHat and SuSE are themselves >distributed under GPL, but they had (in some cases even still do) >distribute software which sources are not freely available, think of Qt >from Troll Tech or the famous XForms lib. This is possible to do with linux. It isn't possible with cygwin. If a program is built using the cygwin stub library (-lcygwin) it *must* be GPLed. This is not an optional thing. It's a legal requirement. This is, of course, not the case for either the linux kernel or the linux C library. cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com