On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 6:58 PM, Dave Love <[email protected]> wrote: > However, I was obviously asleep answering before. The fundamental > problem with licences is that Cygwin is under the GPL, so you can't link > SISSL code against it (and distribute) without some sort of exception to > the licence -- i.e. paying Red Hat?.
There's an "Open Source Licensing Exception" from Redhat: http://cygwin.com/licensing.html We can link against Cygwin or redistribute the Cygwin Grid Engine port as SISSL is OSI approved. Rayson > I'm not sure even about > distributing build changes for people to link it themselves. Presumably > that would be finessed by an autotools build that didn't do anything > Cygwin-specific. [I know the Cygwin licence is often ignored, and that > there's no problem of principle from linking two pieces of free > software, but...] > _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] https://gridengine.org/mailman/listinfo/users
