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Re: License issue


On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 03:59:29PM +0300, Baurjan Ismagulov wrote:
>On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 02:45:19PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> Huh?  That's exactly section 3a, just take the "accompany" literally.
>
>Ok, thanks.
>
>> We don't distribute Cygwin under the 3b clause so that doesn't count
>> here at all.
>
>This was my point. I couldn't find this on the web page; I'd like to see
>it mentioned (please point me to the text if I overlooked it).

The reason this doesn't count is not because we have an arbitrary restriction
on the license.  It is because it is extremely unlikely that you are going
to send a postal mail offer to every person who acquires the Cygwin DLL.
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