From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: DJ Delorie To: tolj@uni-duesseldorf.de Cc: mh@mike.franken.de, cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: [ANN] Cygwin DEV survey Date: Sun, 07 Mar 1999 17:16:00 -0000 Message-id: <199903080116.UAA15761@envy.delorie.com> In-reply-to: < 36E30E97.7310@uni-duesseldorf.de > (message from Stipe Tolj onMon, 08 Mar 1999 00:41:11 +0100) References: <7COu0ETppfB@mike.franken.de> <36E30E97.7310@uni-duesseldorf.de> <36E30E97.7310@uni-duesseldorf.de> X-SW-Source: 1999-03/msg00201.html > As I mentioned in a previous mail. RedHat and SuSE don't provide ALL > sources for the pre-compiled binaries, so there is some kind of conflict > here towards GPL. > > We would like to put a collection of software to a CD like RedHat and > SuSE do, if this is violating GPL, so why do they. This is OK because Linux's runtime license is not GPL. It is LGPL, with exceptions which allow non-gpl applications to be built that run under Linux. Since the licencing allows for non-gpl applications, such applications can be built. Since the GPL applies to applications, not aggregates of applications, such applications can be distributed on the same CD as GPL programs. -- 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: DJ Delorie To: tolj@uni-duesseldorf.de Cc: mh@mike.franken.de, cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: [ANN] Cygwin DEV survey Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 19:45:00 -0000 Message-ID: <199903080116.UAA15761@envy.delorie.com> References: <7COu0ETppfB@mike.franken.de> <36E30E97.7310@uni-duesseldorf.de> X-SW-Source: 1999-03n/msg00201.html Message-ID: <19990331194500.TNadPLzxHmAm_UWwIaGjF9qGCeZQH_V7gW3qXKEacGo@z> > As I mentioned in a previous mail. RedHat and SuSE don't provide ALL > sources for the pre-compiled binaries, so there is some kind of conflict > here towards GPL. > > We would like to put a collection of software to a CD like RedHat and > SuSE do, if this is violating GPL, so why do they. This is OK because Linux's runtime license is not GPL. It is LGPL, with exceptions which allow non-gpl applications to be built that run under Linux. Since the licencing allows for non-gpl applications, such applications can be built. Since the GPL applies to applications, not aggregates of applications, such applications can be distributed on the same CD as GPL programs. -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com