On Sat, Jan 22, 2005 at 05:17:44PM -0800, Brian Dessent wrote: >John Mellor wrote: >>Correct me if I'm mistaken, but if I'm going to make a few dollars off >>of a non-free something that links in an open source library, I need to >>provide the source for the open-source parts with the product, or fall >>afoul of the LGPL. So, to make everybody happy, I believe that all I >>need to add, is to provide the source for cygwin1.dll to the Customer. > >I don't know if the ancient Bxx series was LGPL, but the current Cygwin >source is GPL which means you must provide not only the Cygwin DLL >source but also all the source of your app that links to it. > >There is a mailing list to discuss this: cygwin-licensing at cygwin dot >com.
I think that cygwin has been GPL since early 1997. So, you're right. I can't believe I missed this. Anything that uses the Cygwin DLL is GPLed. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/