Re: OpenSSH on windows Problem

2004-09-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 12:34:15PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >It is Red Hat's intent that the only acceptable use of the cygwin DLL ^ , barring any other arrangements made directly with Red Hat, >should be in accordance with the GPL as described on the cygwin >

Re: OpenSSH on windows Problem

2004-09-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 08:35:01AM -0700, David A. Case wrote: >On Thu, Sep 02, 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>This is really really simple and I don't know why it is so confusing. >> >>If your program uses the cygwin DLL, then your program is GPLed. > >On possible reason for confusion is that s

Re: OpenSSH on windows Problem

2004-09-03 Thread David A. Case
On Thu, Sep 02, 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote: > > This is really really simple and I don't know why it is so confusing. > > If your program uses the cygwin DLL, then your program is GPLed. On possible reason for confusion is that statments like this one (which have appeared many times on this

Re: OpenSSH on windows Problem

2004-09-02 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 06:31:05PM +, Cary Lewis wrote: >simply using cygwin binaries like ssh, perl, bash, etc. does not >virally infect a propietary system with the GPL. The word "virally" is a charged word. This is really really simple and I don't know why it is so confusing. If you prov

RE: OpenSSH on windows Problem

2004-09-02 Thread Dave Korn
> -Original Message- > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Cary Lewis > Sent: 02 September 2004 19:31 > From what I understand, simply using cygwin binaries like > ssh, perl, bash, etc. > does not virally infect a propietary system with the GPL. Nothing "virally" infects a system with th

Re: OpenSSH on windows Problem

2004-09-02 Thread Cary Lewis
>From what I understand, simply using cygwin binaries like ssh, perl, bash, etc. does not virally infect a propietary system with the GPL. So, if you plan on using sshd and sftp as part of your commerical app, you don not have to license cygwin. Any changes you make to sshd or sftp would have t

Re: OpenSSH on windows Problem

2004-09-02 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 11:53:43AM +0500, hassani wrote: >I am planning to use OPENSSH in my COMMMERCIAL project for custom SFTP >support on WINDOWS operating system. I have couple of queries regarding >that. > >1. Is it necessary to use cygwin1.dll after i compile the OpenSSH source. >Does portabl