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Re: About cygwin license
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Cc: armosuper at yahoo dot co dot uk
- Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 11:53:23 -0500
- Subject: Re: About cygwin license
- References: <20031211084451.26141.qmail@web25101.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 08:44:51AM +0000, Armo Super wrote:
>Hello
>
>What do you think about next situation?
>
>I have made an software, that I'm going to sell.
>My software uses PostgreSql database system, witch is
>distributed under BSD license.
>If I want to get PostgreSql run in Windows
>environment, I need Cygwin.
>
>My software -(direct use)-> JDBC -(socket)->
>PostgreSql -(direct?)-> Cygwin
>
>And now, is there any resctrictions towards my
>software from GPL, becouse my software is not using
>Cygwin.
Others have answered this question but I haven't seen one observation:
If you are distributing cygwin1.dll or any of its utilities, you need
to adhere to the GPL. You need to distribute source code for these
in compliance with the GPL.
cgf
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