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Re: cygwin and GPL
On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 08:19:24AM +0200, Nicolas Grehalle wrote:
> hello,
>
> I have a law problem.
> I use cygwin on a CDROM to launch Apache and MySQL. This services allow to
> use my application (a CGI program, in C) with a WebBrowser, IE for example,
> on a local machine.
>
> I can put cygwin sources on my Distribution, but I can't do that with my
> application sources, because this application is a protoype of a commercial
> one.
>
> Could I distribute cygwin and my application on a commercial CDROM, but
> without the sources of my application (but with all sources and requirements
> of cygwin) ?
You have two choices:
- Put the sources of your application on the CD and publish them under
some sort of open-source license (GPL, BSD, LGPL, ...)
- Ask RH for a contract (which costs some bucks) and publish no source
codes at all (Cygwin Library License). For more information see
http://www.redhat.com/products/support/cygwin/
Corinna
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