RE: License question (Distribution of cygwin1.dll

2018-05-07 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
patrick schmidt sent the following at Monday, May 07, 2018 10:28 AM > >I want to use iPerf3.exe in an commercial projekt. iPerf uses the MIT >License but needs cygwin1.dll in order to function correctly. > >I need to distribute iperf3.exe in our commercial software, but we cant >release the source

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
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

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

RE: License question

2003-03-11 Thread Pete Nordquist
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: License question On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 10:04:01PM -0800, Pete Nordquist wrote: >Thank you, Christopher, for your quick reply. I didn't mean to imply >that every binary produced by gcc is GPLed. I'm not sure how you could take your assertion any othe

Re: License question

2003-03-11 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 10:04:01PM -0800, Pete Nordquist wrote: >Thank you, Christopher, for your quick reply. I didn't mean to imply >that every binary produced by gcc is GPLed. I'm not sure how you could take your assertion any other way unless you think there is something special about cygwin

RE: License question

2003-03-10 Thread Pete Nordquist
ter Science Southern Oregon University [EMAIL PROTECTED] 541/552-6148 -Original Message- From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2003 8:43 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: License question On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 06:47:44PM -0800, Pete Nordquis

Re: License question

2003-03-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 06:47:44PM -0800, Pete Nordquist wrote: >I read the following on >http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/faq/faq_1.html#SEC4 > >In particular, if you intend to port a proprietary (non-GPL'd) >application using Cygwin, you will need the proprietary-use license for >the Cygwin libra