On Aug 27 00:31, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 04:33:38PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
[..lots of unnecessary quoting removed...] > >Huh? So, for example, if one builds a program that uses, say, > >cygncurses7.dll (by linking with /usr/lib/libncurses.dll.a), which, in > >turn, uses cygwin1.dll, that program cannot be released under any license > >that's incompatible with GPL? > > Huh? right back at you. > > When you build a program using gcc on cygwin, you link in libcygwin.a > unless you specifically tell gcc not to do so. If you do not link in > libcygwin.a then either 1) you are not building a cygwin program, or you > are 2) inexplicably linking using just the cygwin1.dll directly (which > probably wouldn't work anyway). In either case you would not be covered > by the license exception. In the first case it would hardly matter and > in the second case, it is just an artifact of the fact that linking > directly to the dll didn't work when the licensing words were written. I've changed the text on the licensing.html page. It now mentions cygwin1.dll explicitely. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Red Hat, Inc.