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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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