On Apr 21 02:17, Bart van der Werf (Bluelive) wrote: > Will the cygwin.dll become LGPL at one time in the future? > The viral GPL clause really makes me not want to use it with my BSD > licensed application.
Your problem. Read http://cygwin.com/licensing.html again: "In accordance with section 10 of the GPL, Red Hat permits programs whose sources are distributed under a license that complies with the Open Source definition to be linked with libcygwin.a without libcygwin.a itself causing the resulting program to be covered by the GNU GPL." Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Co-Project Leader mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Red Hat, Inc. -- 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/
