On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 02:48:14PM -0400, Tillman, James wrote:
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>> -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
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
> > As the Cygwin.dll is licensed under GPL, any "Program" that links to it
must
> > be released under GPL as well.
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> 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
> -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
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> On Wed, 16 Jul 2003, Elfyn McBratney wrote:
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RedHat has granted a special exception that allows any open source to link
to Cygwin.dll.
As the legal copyright holder, RedHat may grant any sort of exception to the
GPL they want, and are not bound to the GPL. (This only applies to
Cygwin.dll and other components that RedHat can claim ownershi
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
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
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