From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Chris Faylor To: cygwin@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: <19990308104616.E789@cygnus.com> References: <001901be6909$0c8aaeb0$cd3b4ec6@hunda> X-SW-Source: 1999-03n/msg00234.html Message-ID: <19990331194500.mx2J9kRvRG3nxXNfyC2PiWsFNifm7AfRADbksJqq9CI@z> On Sun, Mar 07, 1999 at 09:11:57PM -0500, Suhaib M. Siddiqi wrote: >. >>> >>>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??? If someone is distributing code which incorporates our crt0 file then it *must* be GPLed. If they are just distributing the crt0.o module and cygwin1.dll then they must make source code available for both. cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com