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RE: BogoMIPS


Can help you?

http://www.clifton.nl/index.html?bogomips.html



-----Original Message-----
From: cygwin-developers-owner@cygwin.com
[mailto:cygwin-developers-owner@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Corinna
Vinschen
Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2007 6:01 PM
To: cygwin-developers@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: BogoMIPS


On Mar  7 15:56, Dave Korn wrote:
> On 07 March 2007 15:35, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > Cygwin is under the Cygwin license.  If you integrate GPL code, it's

> > GPLed.  That's ok for almost everybody, just not for Red Hat.  See 
> > the last paragraph on http://cygwin.com/licensing.html.
> 
>   Ah, it's the lack of the exception that causes the problem, am I 
> right?

Yes.  Oh well, this has been discussed at greatest possible length in
the last 10 years.

> Does that imply that LGPL'd code would be compatible?

No.  Compatible licenses don't restrict the distribution of source code.
That's why we use BSD code when possible and useful.


Corinna

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