[Patch]: Changes to how-programming.texinfo
Max Kaehn
slothman@electric-cloud.com
Fri Jul 15 19:25:00 GMT 2005
On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 15:08 -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 11:53:22AM -0700, Max Kaehn wrote:
> >I'm concerned about that FAQ entry giving incomplete information
>
> And, I'm always concerned about people who can't find any information unless
> it is in in the FAQ.
Think of how much time it could save you to not have to answer
questions about contradictions between the FAQ and the Cygwin
license. :-)
> I'd rather not refer to this as "exceptions to the GPL requirement". I
> think that something along the lines of:
>
> Before you begin, note that Cygwin is licensed under the GNU GPL (as
> indeed are all other Cygwin-based libraries). That means that if your
> code links against the cygwin dll (and if your program is calling
> functions from Cygwin, it must, as a matter of fact, be linked against
> it), and you are distributing binaries, the GPL, in general, applies to
> your source as well. See http://cygwin.com/licensing.html for more
> details about the GPL and Cygwin's use of it.
>
> would be preferable. I'd like to get Corinna's take on this, however,
> and that won't be happening for a week or so.
Sounds good.
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