Thankyou. Actually my source is testing a library, so if I did distribute the test programs, I would only have to make the code for the test programs and not the code for the libraries available (dynamic linking to the libraries).
Alastair. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Christopher Faylor Sent: 07 June 2004 17:25 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Visual Studio linking On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 05:13:25PM +0100, Alastair Growcott wrote: >>A .def file is generated for cygwin when the DLL is built, actually. > >I'm not building the Cygwin dll, so I need this step. > >>5a) Modify the license of your program to the GNU General Public >>License, since your binary has now become GPLed, meaning that you must >>now offer the source code to your sources under the terms of the GPL. > >My program is non-distributable. I am using it to run unit tests >internally. > >I thought that, under the terms of the GPL, if my binary links >dynamically to the Cygwin DLL, I do NOT have to offer my source code >up, I only need to ensure that people can use my software against >future (or past) versions of Cygwin by rebuilding the DLL themselves. >This includes either distributing the Cygwin DLL source code or >ditributing a link to somewhere they can obtain it. >>5) Download crt0.c from the cygwin website and include it in your >>sources. Modify it to call my_crt0() instead of cygwin_crt0(). You're including crt0.c in your source code. That's not linking dynamically. You are also using a .def file for your linking rather than calling LoadLibrary and cousins. AFAICT, you aren't doing anything differently from what a normal build of a binary using gcc and would do. >Or is that the lesser GPL? > >Surely the source code will not be GPL'ed if I do not make it or the >binary publically available! I suspect that you probably haven't read the GPL FAQ. This section is probably pertinent: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#TOCGPLRequireSourcePostedPublic but the rest should make interesting reading as well. cgf -- 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/ -- 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/
