On Aug 26 16:58, Giulio Ardoino wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > If you distribute a Cygwin DLL binary, you must also provide the sources > > of the DLL. It's not enough to point to the Cygwin web page. For further > > details, see http://cygwin.com/licensing.html > > Thanks a lot Corinna. > This means I'm allowed to distribute cygwin dll as long as I distribute > it with sources, as I understand. > Let's say I'm writing a commercial program that uses GNU zip under > windows (and therefore must be distributed with cygwin dll), am I > allowed to do this as long as I include cygwin and zip sources?
As long as your proprietary application is not load-time or run-time linked against the Cygwin DLL, or against any other GPL'd library, then you should be fine by distributing the sources of all open-sourced stuff in your package. However, IANAL, so if you want to be on the real safe side, contact a lawyer which is specialized in licensing issues, or use one of the official Red Hat contacts given on the http://cygwin.com/licensing.html web page. Corinna P.S.: A simpler option is to use a Windows native GNU zip, which takes the Cygwin DLL out of the equation. -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-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/
