From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Earnie Boyd To: cygwin users Subject: Re: [ANN] Cygwin DEV survey Date: Sun, 07 Mar 1999 19:09:00 -0000 Message-id: <19990308030902.11946.rocketmail@send101.yahoomail.com> X-SW-Source: 1999-03/msg00209.html ---Chris Faylor wrote: > > 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. > Which is the reason for the birth of Mingw32. == - \\||// -------------------o0O0--Earnie--0O0o------------------- -- earnie_boyd@yahoo.com -- -- http://www.freeyellow.com/members5/gw32/index.html -- ----------------------ooo0O--O0ooo---------------------- PS: Newbie's, you should visit my page. _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.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: Earnie Boyd To: cygwin users Subject: Re: [ANN] Cygwin DEV survey Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 19:45:00 -0000 Message-ID: <19990308030902.11946.rocketmail@send101.yahoomail.com> X-SW-Source: 1999-03n/msg00209.html Message-ID: <19990331194500.glkn2GYTahiCNT3m2NR85ASDloaJN9WqkPiPdhqRypI@z> ---Chris Faylor wrote: > > 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. > Which is the reason for the birth of Mingw32. == - \\||// -------------------o0O0--Earnie--0O0o------------------- -- earnie_boyd@yahoo.com -- -- http://www.freeyellow.com/members5/gw32/index.html -- ----------------------ooo0O--O0ooo---------------------- PS: Newbie's, you should visit my page. _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com