Re: Cygwin and other open source licenses

[Marcel Telka <marcel at telka dot sk>]

> Hi,
> 
> I was just browsing Slashdot and came across this interview with 
> Professor Eben Moglen. (see below)
> I'm currently doing a project at my university that uses the
> cygwin.dll 
> for windows compatibility.
> My project is licensed under some special open source university
> license 
> like most universities has.
> However after having read the interview it seems to me that I'm 
> violating the license by not using the GPL for my work but some other 
> open source license with my university requires.
> Am I right?

If you want to distribute your software in source code form only and
sources for cygwin1.dll are not a part of the distribution, then you are
free to chose any license you want (including proprietary) for your
software.

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