Cary Lewis wrote: > Why is it that linking to the cygwin.dll makes a program covered by GPL? > > On Linux systems, does linking to the open source 'C' libraries, etc. cause > a program to be covered by the GPL? > > If that were true, then wouldn't every program be GPL? Then you couldn't > have any Programs that didn't require publishing of source code? But there > are many, many commercial programs for Linux that don't publish their code.
I think that's why many libraries are licensed under the LGPL, which drops the requriement that code linked against the library becomes tainted. Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
