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Re: Packaging O'Caml
On Aug 27 00:31, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 04:33:38PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
[..lots of unnecessary quoting removed...]
> >Huh? So, for example, if one builds a program that uses, say,
> >cygncurses7.dll (by linking with /usr/lib/libncurses.dll.a), which, in
> >turn, uses cygwin1.dll, that program cannot be released under any license
> >that's incompatible with GPL?
>
> Huh? right back at you.
>
> When you build a program using gcc on cygwin, you link in libcygwin.a
> unless you specifically tell gcc not to do so. If you do not link in
> libcygwin.a then either 1) you are not building a cygwin program, or you
> are 2) inexplicably linking using just the cygwin1.dll directly (which
> probably wouldn't work anyway). In either case you would not be covered
> by the license exception. In the first case it would hardly matter and
> in the second case, it is just an artifact of the fact that linking
> directly to the dll didn't work when the licensing words were written.
I've changed the text on the licensing.html page. It now mentions
cygwin1.dll explicitely.
Corinna
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