From: "Suhaib M. Siddiqi" <Ssiddiqi@InspirePharm.Com>
To: "Chris Faylor" <cgf@cygnus.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 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <002b01be6909$e7b69f80$cd3b4ec6@hunda> (raw)
Message-ID: <19990331194500.5EbtOeL51P-JcnucJ8TRL0kHJzO4CIWnZ3-yUM2JzgI@z> (raw)
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
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Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-03-07 18:18 Suhaib M. Siddiqi [this message]
1999-03-09 17:39 ` Stipe Tolj
[not found] ` < 36E5C331.2C0B@uni-duesseldorf.de >
1999-03-09 17:47 ` Chris Faylor
1999-03-31 19:45 ` Chris Faylor
1999-03-31 19:45 ` Stipe Tolj
1999-03-31 19:45 ` Suhaib M. Siddiqi
[not found] <006a01be69b6$90433300$29acdfd0@InspirePharm.Com>
1999-03-08 15:23 ` Chris Faylor
1999-03-31 19:45 ` Chris Faylor
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1999-03-08 15:09 Suhaib M. Siddiqi
1999-03-31 19:45 ` Suhaib M. Siddiqi
1999-03-08 15:07 Suhaib M. Siddiqi
1999-03-31 19:45 ` Suhaib M. Siddiqi
1999-03-08 15:02 Suhaib M. Siddiqi
[not found] ` < 00a701be69ba$27d003d0$29acdfd0@InspirePharm.Com >
1999-03-08 15:06 ` Henry J. Cobb
1999-03-31 19:45 ` Suhaib M. Siddiqi
1999-03-31 19:45 ` Henry J. Cobb
1999-03-08 14:50 Suhaib M. Siddiqi
1999-03-31 19:45 ` Suhaib M. Siddiqi
1999-03-08 14:39 Suhaib M. Siddiqi
[not found] ` < 008f01be69b6$f4fa6ed0$29acdfd0@InspirePharm.Com >
1999-03-08 14:47 ` DJ Delorie
[not found] ` < 199903082247.RAA11818@envy.delorie.com >
1999-03-08 14:59 ` Henry J. Cobb
[not found] ` <199903082259.RAA18063@delorie.com>
1999-03-08 15:01 ` DJ Delorie
1999-03-31 19:45 ` DJ Delorie
1999-03-31 19:45 ` Henry J. Cobb
1999-03-31 19:45 ` DJ Delorie
1999-03-31 19:45 ` Suhaib M. Siddiqi
1999-03-08 11:13 Suhaib M. Siddiqi
1999-03-31 19:45 ` Suhaib M. Siddiqi
[not found] <001901be6909$0c8aaeb0$cd3b4ec6@hunda>
1999-03-08 7:45 ` Chris Faylor
[not found] ` < 19990308104616.E789@cygnus.com >
1999-03-08 11:03 ` Fergus Henderson, Fergus Henderson
1999-03-31 19:45 ` Fergus Henderson, Fergus Henderson
[not found] ` <19990309060114.17632@mundook.cs.mu.OZ.AU>
1999-03-08 11:08 ` Chris Faylor
1999-03-31 19:45 ` Chris Faylor
1999-03-31 19:45 ` Chris Faylor
[not found] <Pine.LNX.3.96.990307195915.12096C-100000@mail.perspex.com>
1999-03-07 18:06 ` Chris Faylor, Chris Faylor
1999-03-31 19:45 ` Chris Faylor, Chris Faylor
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