From: Claus Brod <claus_brod@bbn.hp.com>
To: Fergus Henderson <fjh@cs.mu.OZ.AU>
Cc: gnu-win32@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: Cygnus used in a Product ?
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 1997 09:51:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <344796DB.3A46@bbn.hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <199710160612.QAA05577@mundook.cs.mu.OZ.AU>
> Yes, you're wrong.
Good news!
> You don't need to ship source code unless your app is a "derivative work"
> of the DLL, and if it just uses that standard POSIX interfaces it won't be.
In other words, as long as I just use the Cygwin32 DLL(s) along with the
header files to compile and link my application, I can distribute my
application along with the Cygwin32 DLLs (plus maybe the sources for the
DLLs), but I am not forced to publish the sources for my application?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~1997-10-17 9:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-10-14 23:13 desh
1997-10-15 7:51 ` Claus Brod
1997-10-16 3:16 ` Fergus Henderson
1997-10-17 9:51 ` Claus Brod [this message]
1997-10-18 12:23 ` Larry Meadows
1997-10-19 5:27 `
1997-10-19 13:47 ` Larry Meadows
1997-10-19 21:15 ` Fergus Henderson
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