cygwin and other open source licenses

Christopher Faylor cgf@redhat.com
Tue Mar 4 15:40:00 GMT 2003


On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 10:12:55AM +0100, Kasper Nielsen wrote:
>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?

The cygwin license is mentioned at http://cygwin.com/licensing.html .
Please read that page.  If you have questions after reading that then
ask them here.

cgf

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