> -----Original Message----- > From: Elfyn McBratney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 11:43 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: Cary Lewis > Subject: Re: License question about Cygwin > > > On Wed, 16 Jul 2003, Elfyn McBratney wrote: > > > 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. >
So how would the hypothetical "Program" you are discussing differ from Cygwin itself, which links to Win32 dlls that cannot be released as source code? jpt -- 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/
