On Thu, 26 Aug 2004, 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?
IANAL, but the GPL does talk about linking as separate from invoking the programs using fork/exec. In particular, the following two sections from the GPL FAQ might be relevant: <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLAndPlugins> and <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLPluginsInNF>. As always, please consult a real lawyer when there's any doubt as to the interpretation of the terms of the license. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing." -- Dr. Jubal Harshaw -- 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/
