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RE: ksh on cygwin
- From: "Karsten Fleischer" <K dot Fleischer at omnium dot de>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 02:03:43 +0100
- Subject: RE: ksh on cygwin
> I'm not sure but I don't think it matters if the sources are
> proprietary. Maybe this is getting incredibly picky but if you adapted
> algorithms from other non-GPL compliant programs then that is probably
> an issue, too.
I don't know if something like "If the first four bytes of a file are
'poop', then hold your breath" is considered an algorithm.
I've contacted Glenn Fowler regarding this issue.
He'll confirm what I've said.
> This wouldn't be an issue for the Berkeley license, though. I don't know
> what the AST tools use for licensing.
OK, once again:
http://www.research.att.com/sw/license/ast-open.html
Karsten
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