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Re: maybe-ITP: bsdiff


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Corinna Vinschen wrote:

> It's a bit dangerous to rely on the author saying "but I didn't
> mean it that way". Probably he would have to change the license to
> include some explicit wording about this situation. Asking can't
> hurt, though.

Here goes the reply:

> Lapo Luchini wrote:
>
>> http://cygwin.com/licensing.html In accordance with section 10 of
>> the GPL, Red Hat permits programs whose sources are distributed
>> under a license that complies with the Open Source definition to
>> be linked with libcygwin.a/cygwin1.dll without
>> libcygwin.a/cygwin1.dll itself causing the resulting program to
>> be covered by the GNU GPL.
>>
>> As it is the exception doesn't apply (did the discussion on
>> opensuorce.org mailing lists ever end? I don't quite remember)
>> and so both bsdiff should be compatible with GPL (which it isn't)
>> and cygwin compatible with BSDPL (which it isn't)...
>
> As far as I can see, BSDPL is an Open Source license under the
> definition referenced, so the exception should apply. (I gave up
> arguing with the opensource.org people, but they never came up with
> any argument for why BSDPL didn't qualify -- the worst they could
> say was that it was poorly written.)
>
> As for making cygwin compatible with BSDPL, does cygwin need to
> link statically or dynamically? I don't consider dynamic linking
> to fall into the scope of the license.
>
> Colin Percival

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Lapo Luchini
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