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RE: Things you can do with Cygwin
- To: "Kendall Bennett" <KendallB at scitechsoft dot com>,<cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- Subject: RE: Things you can do with Cygwin
- From: "Suhaib M. Siddiqi" <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>
- Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 20:08:35 -0400
> > The GPL doesn't talk about programs, it talks about "works". It
> > doesn't matter how the two parts communicate. The legal
> > definition of "works", I've been told, is pretty clear, so it would
> > be easy for the court to decide if your tricks were a violation or
> > not, if it ever came down to that.
>
> If that were the case, then a GPL'ed X-server would simply not be
> suitable
> for running anything but GPL code. Cygwin/XFree is one such server.
>
Kendall,
I disagree. If that is true, then nothing could be compiled by GCC but a
GPL'ed
code, No software, but GPl'ed, should be used on Linux because it contains a
lots of GPL'ed stuff.
Doe not make much sense to me personally.
Suhaib
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