Tod,
On May 12 12:48, Tod Courtney wrote:
We use Cygwin to provide the Windows port of our academic software
(www.mobius.uiuc.edu). Our software installation program prompts the user
for various paths, including the location of our software, and the location
of the cygwin folder.
I just visited your page and it looks like Moebius is proprietary software.
If you have linked Moebius to the Cygwin DLL, then you're infringing the
GPL license of Cygwin by not providing the source code of your application.
See http://cygwin.com/licensing.html for details.
How can you go from here?
If your software is not linked against the Cygwin DLL and you're just
providing Cygwin as an environment to run your application in, then you're
done.
If your software is open source and you're providing the source code to all
your users for free, then that's fine and you're done.
However, if you don't provide the sources to your users then that's
a breach of the Cygwin GPL license. In this case you have two choices:
Your source code has to be GPLed and you must provide it to your users.
or
You can purchase a buyout license from Red Hat. To do this, please
either contact Red Hat using the contact information given at the bottom
of our web page http://cygwin.com/licensing.html, or contact my manager
Eric Bachalo, which I have Cc'ed in this posting.
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Tod Courtney Senior Research Programmer
Coordinated Science Lab | Ph:(217)244-3203
University of Illinois at Urbana, Champaign | Fx:(217)244-3359
231 CSL, 1308 W. Main St., Urbana, IL 61801 |tod@crhc.uiuc.edu
Thanks in advance,
Corinna