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On 01/27/2011 04:57 PM, tom honermann wrote: > I've been looking into Cygwin licensing and redistribution regarding the > Cygwin DLL and various GNU utilities. The current Cygwin license > (http://cygwin.com/licensing.html) states Wrong list. Ask on cygwin-licensing. > The way I > interpret this, this effectively means that no entity other than RedHat > can distribute GPLv3 GNU utilities dynamically linked with the Cygwin > DLL and include the Cygwin DLL with the GNU utilities (without > additional permissions by RedHat). Short answer - wrong interpretation. The cygwin license exception specifically states that a GPLv3 program (by virtue of being an OSI approved license) can be linked against cygwin and distributed as though the GPLv2 of cygwin were not present. Therefore, the GPLv2-only nature of cygwin does not interfere with the GPLv3 license of the program. -- Eric Blake eblake@redhat.com +1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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