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Re: Proprietary Software [WAS: Re: SGML/XML packages available for testing]
- From: Stanislav Sinyagin <ssinyagin at yahoo dot com>
- To: Earnie Boyd <Cygwin at Cygwin dot Com>
- Cc: Markus Hoenicka <Markus dot Hoenicka at uth dot tmc dot edu>, cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com, Earnie Boyd <Cygwin at Cygwin dot Com>
- Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 00:00:53 -0700 (PDT)
- Subject: Re: Proprietary Software [WAS: Re: SGML/XML packages available for testing]
--- Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Stanislav Sinyagin wrote:
> >
> > Hi Markus,
> >
> > I am using these distributions in my propriatory software:
> >
>
> Your proprietary software will need to have a GPL license if it uses any
> library compiled with Cygwin1.dll dependencies. Your proprietary
> software will need to have a GPL license if it uses any library that is
> itself covered by the GPL unless special clauses are given such as is in
> the LGPL.
well, these are few Perl scripts that we use internally, and the documentation
written in DocBook XML. It's no way a software for sale, nor a package which
could be useful to anyone else, because it's really domain-specific.
Am I right that in this case I'm free to use the GPL software
without any license offence?
Thanks for pointing to the issue, it's a really thing to think about.
Ragards,
Stanislav
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