From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tripp Lilley To: Stipe Tolj Cc: Michael Hirmke , cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com, dj@delorie.com Subject: Re: [ANN] Cygwin DEV survey Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 19:45:00 -0000 Message-ID: References: <36E30E97.7310@uni-duesseldorf.de> X-SW-Source: 1999-03n/msg00197.html Message-ID: <19990331194500.kmoBorh1qBbMW5pWbeMLH7wGna6jIfWNmXXjjx0iaKM@z> On Mon, 8 Mar 1999, Stipe Tolj wrote: > 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. Not all of the packages they include are themselves licensed under the GPL. Remember that the GPL covers individual pieces of software, not collections. Thus, a CD can contain GPL'ed software and non-GPL'ed software side by side. The GPL'ed software must include sources, the non-GPL'ed software doesn't have this requirement. However, in the specific case of software built for Cygwin, Cygnus' licensing of the Cygwin CORE (ie: the DLL) is GPL, NOT LGPL. That means that any software linked to the Cygwin DLL /must/ also be GPL'ed, unless the authors/distributors have negotiated an alternative license with Cygnus. NOTE: IANAL, and IANACE (Cygnus Employee), so this is my reading of the Cygwin License page. IASG (Smart Guy), though, so I don't think I'm off base :-) -- Tripp Lilley + Innovative Workflow Engineering, Inc. + (tripp@iweinc.com) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "When applying any correction, you should be swift, firm, without anger or frustration and not carry a grudge." -- jane h. kilberg in http://www.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=448336391 -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com