<http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#IANAL>,
<http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#YANALETEYHSMBSI>,
<http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#GPL>, and just plain old
<http://cygwin.com/acronyms/>.
You could also install the 'wtf' package and ask 'wtf is IANAL'.
Igor
P.S. Some of us are just humble cygwinners, you know, and have mail
clients that don't auto-wrap long lines... ;-)
On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 kevin.lawton<at>bt.com wrote:
> What's with all the 'ANAL' acronyms - 'IANAL' (maybe so) and
> 'YANALATEYHSMBSI' - and why would one need a lawyer because of them ?
> Okay, asking this might be just as 'off topic' in itself as using them
> is - but what the hell are you on about ?
>
> Some of us are just humble cygwinners, you know, and have not yet
> aspired to the dizzy heights of mind reading and acronym translation
> which you seem to require. I think I'll retire to the safety of Bochs
> for now. . .
> Kevin.
>
> | -----Original Message-----
> | From: cygwin-owner<at>cygwin.com
> | [mailto:cygwin-owner<at>cygwin.com]On Behalf Of Igor Pechtchanski
> | Sent: 11 December 2003 15:08
> | To: Hughes, Bill
> | Cc: cygwin<at>cygwin.com
> | Subject: RE: About Cygwin license
> |
> | On Thu, 11 Dec 2003, Hughes, Bill wrote:
> |
> | > Sent: 11 December 2003 14:28 From: Igor Pechtchanski
> | > > Common sense dictates that socket connections cannot be thought of as
> | > > "linking" (which is what the GPL covers). After all, connecting with a
> | > > proprietary ssh client to a GPL'd ssh daemon on Linux doesn't make the
> | > > client GPL'd (AFAIK). Now, if your program is actually linked to some of
> | > > PostgreSQL DLLs, that's a whole different story...
> | >
> | > Isn't PostgreSQL under a BSD license anyway so that wouldn't be a worry
> | > either...
> | > unless this is a Cygwin dll for PostgreSQL?
> |
> | With the disclaimer (which you snipped) that IANAL, and any
> | opinion you'll get is a personal one:
> | The GPL is viral, i.e., anything linked (even dynamically) to a GPL'd
> | library is itself GPL'd, *except* when the software so linked is
> | distributed under an open-source license. Transitive linking is still
> | linking, AFAIK. So, linking with cygwin1.dll doesn't make PostgreSQL
> | GPL'd, as BSD is an accepted open-source license. But any proprietary
> | software linked to PostgreSQL (and, transitively, to
> | cygwin1.dll) *will*, IMO, become GPL'd. Again, YANALATEYHSMBSI.
> | Please consult a lawyer.
> | Igor
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