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Re: New 'as' port: GPL requirements?
- From: DJ Delorie <dj at redhat dot com>
- To: dave dot korn at artimi dot com
- Cc: jmoran-binutils at cyconix dot com, binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2005 14:55:54 -0500
- Subject: Re: New 'as' port: GPL requirements?
- References: <SERRANOFCfywEsGmjm0000001e6@SERRANO.CAM.ARTIMI.COM>
> Just to point you to a case in point: Cygwin is a GPL'd POSIX
> emulation layer distributed as a windows DLL. If you write a
> program that dynamically links to the cygwin DLL, your program must
> be GPL'd.
Bad case. Cygwin's DLL is interpreted as being "a standard part of
the OS" (the OS being "Cygwin" of course) and falls under the OS
exception of the GPL. The case for Cygwin is that there *is* a small
portion of it statically linked into your executable, and *that*
forces the GPL.