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Re: is it ok to ship cygwin.dll with an application covered by BSD?
Yikes! I didn't proofread my response very well. Must have gotten
caught by cross-VNC copy-paste trouble. :-(
This is the link I meant to send <http://cygwin.com/licensing.html>.
Really. :-)
Sorry for the confusion.
Larry
At 06:25 PM 6/15/2004, you wrote:
>I've looked at the FAQ ("What are the copyrights?" section) and other
>places, if you are saying that my question is bad or already answered.
>
>Britton Kerin
>
>On Tue, 15 Jun 2004, Larry Hall wrote:
>
>> At 03:00 PM 6/15/2004, you wrote:
>>
>> >We have a free radar processing system for which we are trying to release
>> >a windows version. We have obtained permission from our university to
>> >release our code under the BSD license. We would be happy to choose the
>> >GPL, but the lunatic whims of those in charge seem inflexible in this
>> >case. We have tried hard to get the system going using mingwin and the
>> >cygwin.a library, which we understand is ok to use, but it doesn't quite
>> >work, some important libraries fail to build. With cygwin.dll,
>> >everything is beautiful.
>> >
>> >I'm not clear if we are allowed to ship the application with cygwin.dll
>> >though. We could include source code for cygwin.dll, or source code
>> >pointers, or whatever. I am hoping that since cygwin.dll is freely
>> >available, we can ship it with our processor?
>> >
>> >Thanks for any information you can provide,
>> >Britton Kerin
>>
>>
>> I'd recommend checking out <http://cygwin.com/problems.html>, especially
>> the "note" at the bottom. My quick review would suggest that this is the
>> important part as far as you're concerned.
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>>
>
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