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RE: Debug of Test 15 (cgf input needed)
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- Subject: RE: Debug of Test 15 (cgf input needed)
- From: "Robert Collins" <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>
- Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 09:56:37 +1000
- Thread-Index: AcDAhcTnI7l2k5z2SnaEd0EcIs7uYgAAYaEA
- Thread-Topic: Debug of Test 15 (cgf input needed)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:cgf@redhat.com]
>
>
> >The binaries are not under the GPL. If they were, the
> source would be
> >under GPL as well. Redhat grants an exception for software that is
> >under a open source licence such as XFree86 so that they do
> not need to
> >be GPL'd.
>
> What's this? Someone has actually read the Cygwin license agreement?
>
Just the web page, and clause 10 of the GPL :]. I felt obligated to
before I started a flame war with Corinna over openSSH and other non-GPL
applications linking with Cygwin1.dll (this list, last week). I had a
sneaking suspicion that reading it was a Good Thing.
I never sent the email I'd started drafting <grin>.
Rob