Thank you, Christopher, for your quick reply. I didn't mean to imply that every binary produced by gcc is GPLed. I am relatively new to licensing, am not a lawyer and am trying to reconcile what I read in the GPL and LGPL with how binaries are produced. The "In addition ... " text you quoted below certainly seems to cover my question, but I can't find this text in either the GPL or the LGPL. Have I just missed it in the GPL and LGPL, or should I be looking somewhere else for this text? Thank you for your consideration,
Pete Nordquist Assistant Professor of Computer Science Southern Oregon University [EMAIL PROTECTED] 541/552-6148 -----Original Message----- From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2003 8:43 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: License question On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 06:47:44PM -0800, Pete Nordquist wrote: >I read the following on >http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/faq/faq_1.html#SEC4 > >In particular, if you intend to port a proprietary (non-GPL'd) >application using Cygwin, you will need the proprietary-use license for >the Cygwin library. This is available for purchase; please visit >http://www.redhat.com/software/tools/cygwin/ for more information. All >other questions should be sent to the project mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >I don't understand how Redhat can release libcygwin.a under a >proprietary license for customers to use to produce proprietary code. >Isn't customer code produced using the proprietary version of >libcygwin.a also statically linked with gcclib, which is licensed under >the GPL? So what you're implying is that every binary produced by gcc is GPLed? Doesn't that sound odd to you? You are aware that there are proprietary programs on linux, right? And that people use gcc to produce proprietary programs on other computers? The libgcc parts that get linked into your program are covered under a special exception: "In addition to the permissions in the GNU General Public License, the Free Software Foundation gives you unlimited permission to link the compiled version of this file into combinations with other programs, and to distribute those combinations without any restriction coming from the use of this file. (The General Public License restrictions do apply in other respects; for example, they cover modification of the file, and distribution when not linked into a combine executable.)" cgf -- Please use the resources at cygwin.com rather than sending personal email. Special for spam email harvesters: send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and be permanently blocked from mailing lists at sources.redhat.com -- 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/
