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Re: is it ok to ship cygwin.dll with an application covered by BSD?
- From: Larry Hall <cygwin-lh at cygwin dot com>
- To: Britton Kerin <bkerin at asf dot alaska dot edu>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 15:52:49 -0400
- Subject: Re: is it ok to ship cygwin.dll with an application covered by BSD?
- References: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0406151042260.11285-100000@mail1.asf.alaska.edu>
- Reply-to: Cygwin List <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
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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