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Re: We need steenking patches (Re: Cygwin kill utility...)
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2014 13:09:31 -0400
- Subject: Re: We need steenking patches (Re: Cygwin kill utility...)
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On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 02:10:42PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Apr 11 09:01, Peter Rosin wrote:
>>The newlib license is liberal enough for RedHat to relicense it under
>>their own terms?
>
>That's it, more or less.
I have never seen how you can have it both ways, legally speaking. I
was told not to worry about it when I was at Red Hat but no one ever
gave me a convincing explanation. Since there are no assignments in
newlib land, it just relies on BSD-like licensing. I don't see why
Cygwin can't do the same.
cgf
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