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Re: Changes to cygwin licensing terms
- To: Chris Faylor <cgf@cygnus.com>
- Subject: Re: Changes to cygwin licensing terms
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna.vinschen@cityweb.de>
- Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 21:49:58 +0200
- CC: cygwin-developers@sourceware.cygnus.com
- References: <19990509232313.A5045@cygnus.com>
Chris Faylor wrote:
> [...]
> Note that, in accordance with section 10 of the GNU GPL, Cygnus permits
> programs whose sources are distributed under a license that complies
> with the Open Source(tm) definition to be linked with libcygwin.a
> without libcygwin.a itself causing the resulting program to be covered
> by the GNU GPL. This means tha, if you provide the source code for your
> program you are not required to include the software for the cygwin DLL
> as well. If this is unclear, please contact info@cygnus.com for
> clarification.
> [...]
> Does anyone have any comments on this, positive or negative?
Only positive: This _is_ a good thing!
Corinna
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