On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 11:47:42AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 02:38:57PM +0100, Bernard Dautrevaux wrote: >>>If you are in compliance with the licensing of each of the packages >>>that you will be releasing (including the cygwin DLL) then you should >>>be ok. I can only speak in a semi-official capacity for cygwin. The >>>other packages have their own licensing terms. I assume that adhering >>>to the GPL should satisfy all of the licensing terms but I don't know >>>for sure. >>> >>>If you want to be 100% sure of that fact, then you should contact a >>>lawyer. >> >> >>Note that if you put full sources with the binaries, you provide your >>user with everything that RedHat provides with the binary; so either >>you are compliant or RedHat is not :-) >> >>Just my .02euro > >Your .02euro is worth exactly as much as mine. Neither of us is a >lawyer. If someone is asking for advice on how to be legally correct >then they should seek appropriate counsel.
And, just an added note -- for the cygwin DLL, we own the license so we can do what we want with it. You can't just emulate Red Hat and assume that you're ok. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
