From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: DJ Delorie <dj@delorie.com>
To: hcobb@telegenisys.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: <199903082301.SAA14525@envy.delorie.com>
References: <008f01be69b6$f4fa6ed0$29acdfd0@InspirePharm.Com> <199903082247.RAA11818@envy.delorie.com> <199903082259.RAA18063@delorie.com>
X-SW-Source: 1999-03n/msg00266.html
Message-ID: <19990331194500.5_0iaOgKeY7ME3MUKcAFQxQb7Rc3MrOZ6-ytMOf82Ig@z>

> 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.

Since Windows checks the directory the executable runs from before the
PATH, this shouldn't be a problem if the dll is stored with the
executable and you manage your path properly.  Yes, I know it doesn't
always work that way.  If you have two cygwin1.dlls in your PATH and
they're incompatible, you might have other problems anyway.

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