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RE: Packaging O'Caml
- From: "Williams, Gerald S \(Jerry\)" <gsw at agere dot com>
- To: <cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 14:20:24 -0400
- Subject: 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