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RE: Packaging O'Caml


Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> However, parts of it are released under the "Q
> Public license", which GNU lists explicitly as 
> non-GPL-compatible.  Does this mean an automatic
> "no" to an official Cygwin package [...] ?

>From http://cygwin.com/licensing.html:
In accordance with section 10 of the GPL, Red Hat permits
programs whose sources are distributed under a license that
complies with the Open Source definition to be linked with
libcygwin.a without libcygwin.a itself causing the resulting
program to be covered by the GNU GPL. 

IANAL, but the Q Public License is listed on the OSI web
page, so there don't appear to be any legal restrictions--
some Cygwin packages use different open source licenses
already.

Or have there been policy changes for new Cygwin packages
that I'm not aware of?

-Jerry


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