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 That source can not be published (I don't even have access to it).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

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 also links to

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 auto-GPL'd.

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 is licensed under GPL, any

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: On Wed, 16 Jul 2003, Cary Lewis wrote

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 wish to

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

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: License question about Cygwin On Wed, 16 Jul 2003, Elfyn