On Wed, 16 Jul 2003, Cary Lewis wrote: > As the Cygwin.dll is licensed under GPL, any "Program" that links to it must > be released under GPL as well.
Under section 10 of the GPL, if the "program" is OSD compatible then the "program" is not auto-GPL'd. > My question is, what if the "Program" also links to proprietary .dlls that > are authored by someone else. That source can not be published (I don't even > have access to it). Furthermore these .dlls are not freely available. Are these DLL's Cygwin DLL's ? i.e. not native Windows DLL's. > Does that mean that even if I publish all of my source code, I would still > be violating the GPL because I couldn't publish the source code to the > proprietary libraries. Yes. Elfyn -- Elfyn McBratney, EMCB | http://www.nongnu.org/wwwauth/ http://www.emcb.co.uk | http://www.emcb.co.uk/webauth/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | wwwauth-users AT nongnu DOT org -- 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/
