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Re: system lags and dysfunctional after cygwin update


On 2016-05-13 10:38, Warren Young wrote:
On May 13, 2016, at 8:02 AM, Ben Altman wrote:
I am not sure what is involved in packaging ksh with Cygwin
I was under the impression that if the licensing wasn't GNU it would be a
problem even though it is open source.

Not exactly.  The license merely has to be *compatible* with the GPL as far
as binary distribution goes, since the binaries distributed in the Cygwin
package repo are linked to cygwin1.dll, which is GPLâd.

Please review: https://cygwin.com/licensing.html

Cygwin's license contains a linking exception for software licensed under terms which satisfy the Open Source Definition <https://opensource.org/osd>. For our purposes, a good reference is <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:Main>.

But after taking a peek at the AST license, itâs pretty clear itâs incompatible
with the GPL.

True, but it is Open Source and therefore would be acceptable.

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Yaakov

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