Re: License question about cygwin

2003-07-16 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 02:48:14PM -0400, Tillman, James wrote: > > >> -Original Message- >> From: Elfyn McBratney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 11:43 AM >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Cc: Cary Lewis >> Subject: Re: Licen

Re: License question about cygwin

2003-07-16 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 04:46:24PM -0400, Bill C Riemers wrote: >The answer isn't quite that simple. The correct answer, is that it depends >on the details of what you are doing. I could go into more details, but >this topic has already been moderated once. It would be inappropriate for >me to d

Re: License question about Cygwin

2003-07-16 Thread Bill C Riemers
> > As the Cygwin.dll is licensed under GPL, any "Program" that links to it must > > be released under GPL as well. > > Under section 10 of the GPL, if the "program" is OSD compatible then the > "program" is not auto-GPL'd. Actually section 10 of the GPL just states the following: > 10. If you wi

RE: License question about Cygwin

2003-07-16 Thread Tillman, James
> -Original Message- > From: Elfyn McBratney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 11:43 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: Cary Lewis > Subject: Re: License question about Cygwin > > > On Wed, 16 Jul 2003, Elfyn McBratney wrote: >

Re: License question about Cygwin

2003-07-16 Thread Bill C Riemers
ownership for.) Bill - Original Message - From: "Cary Lewis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 11:23 AM Subject: License question about Cygwin > As the Cygwin.dll i

Re: License question about Cygwin

2003-07-16 Thread Elfyn McBratney
On Wed, 16 Jul 2003, Elfyn McBratney wrote: > On Wed, 16 Jul 2003, Cary Lewis wrote: > > > As the Cygwin.dll is licensed under GPL, any "Program" that links to it must > > be released under GPL as well. > > Under section 10 of the GPL, if the "program" is OSD compatible then the > "program" is not

Re: License question about Cygwin

2003-07-16 Thread Elfyn McBratney
On Wed, 16 Jul 2003, Cary Lewis wrote: > As the Cygwin.dll is licensed under GPL, any "Program" that links to it must > be released under GPL as well. Under section 10 of the GPL, if the "program" is OSD compatible then the "program" is not auto-GPL'd. > My question is, what if the "Program" als

License question about Cygwin

2003-07-16 Thread Cary Lewis
As the Cygwin.dll is licensed under GPL, any "Program" that links to it must be released under GPL as well. My question is, what if the "Program" also links to proprietary .dlls that are authored by someone else. That source can not be published (I don't even have access to it). Furthermore these