What's with all the 'ANAL' acronyms - 'IANAL' (maybe so) and 'YANALATEYHSMBSI' - and why would one need a lawyer because of them ? Okay, asking this might be just as 'off topic' in itself as using them is - but what the hell are you on about ? Some of us are just humble cygwinners, you know, and have not yet aspired to the dizzy heights of mind reading and acronym translation which you seem to require. I think I'll retire to the safety of Bochs for now. . . Kevin. | -----Original Message----- | From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf | Of Igor Pechtchanski | Sent: 11 December 2003 15:08 | To: Hughes, Bill | Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Subject: RE: About Cygwin license | | On Thu, 11 Dec 2003, Hughes, Bill wrote: | | > Sent: 11 December 2003 14:28 From: Igor Pechtchanski | > > Common sense dictates that socket connections cannot be | thought of as | > > "linking" (which is what the GPL covers). After all, | connecting with a | > > proprietary ssh client to a GPL'd ssh daemon on Linux | doesn't make the | > > client GPL'd (AFAIK). Now, if your program is actually | linked to some of | > > PostgreSQL DLLs, that's a whole different story... | > | > Isn't PostgreSQL under a BSD license anyway so that | wouldn't be a worry | > either... | > unless this is a Cygwin dll for PostgreSQL? | | With the disclaimer (which you snipped) that IANAL, and any | opinion you'll | get is a personal one: | The GPL is viral, i.e., anything linked (even dynamically) to a GPL'd | library is itself GPL'd, *except* when the software so linked is | distributed under an open-source license. Transitive linking is still | linking, AFAIK. So, linking with cygwin1.dll doesn't make PostgreSQL | GPL'd, as BSD is an accepted open-source license. But any proprietary | software linked to PostgreSQL (and, transitively, to | cygwin1.dll) *will*, | IMO, become GPL'd. Again, YANALATEYHSMBSI. Please consult a lawyer. | 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! | | "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor | and his route | to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton | | -- | 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/ | |
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