GPL & Copyrights

[Elfyn McBratney]

On Sun, 11 May 2003, Mario Ohnewald wrote:

> Hello!
> I would like to use cygwin (Xfree) to work with a tool which i am gonna
> code.
> Cygwin will be the basement of the whole project. Is it legal to put cygwin
> into this project package?
> I am not gonna change or touch the actual code/files from cygwin.
> As i know i can do this, cause i do not change or sell it in any way.
> My Project is going to be open and unter the GPL, too.

This page (<http://cygwin.com/licensing.html>) on the Cygwin web site 
pretty much says it all. In a nut shell, if you distribute Cygwin or 
Cygwin packages (from the net release) you must provide sources with the 
accompanying binaries.

Elfyn

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Elfyn McBratney
Systems Administrator
ABCtales.com



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