is it ok to ship cygwin.dll with an application covered by BSD?

[Larry Hall]

At 03:00 PM 6/15/2004, you wrote:

>We have a free radar processing system for which we are trying to release
>a windows version.  We have obtained permission from our university to
>release our code under the BSD license.  We would be happy to choose the
>GPL, but the lunatic whims of those in charge seem inflexible in this
>case.  We have tried hard to get the system going using mingwin and the
>cygwin.a library, which we understand is ok to use, but it doesn't quite 
>work, some important libraries fail to build.  With cygwin.dll, 
>everything is beautiful.  
>
>I'm not clear if we are allowed to ship the application with cygwin.dll
>though.  We could include source code for cygwin.dll, or source code
>pointers, or whatever.  I am hoping that since cygwin.dll is freely
>available, we can ship it with our processor?
>
>Thanks for any information you can provide,
>Britton Kerin


I'd recommend checking out <http://cygwin.com/problems.html>, especially
the "note" at the bottom.  My quick review would suggest that this is the
important part as far as you're concerned.




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