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Re: Combining cygwin with non-free portability libraries
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin-licensing at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 13:05:47 -0400
- Subject: Re: Combining cygwin with non-free portability libraries
- References: <Pine.GSO.4.61.0410141215560.24756@slinky.cs.nyu.edu>
- Reply-to: cygwin-licensing at cygwin dot com
On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 12:18:47PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>Incidentally, while perusing the GPL FAQ, I stumbled upon
><http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#MoneyGuzzlerInc>. There seem to be
>several cases of Cygwin packages that may do something similar (in fact,
>Cygwin itself technically does that :-D). Are there implications?
If there are Cygwin packages which are bundling libraries that do not
include source then they shouldn't be in the distribution.
What packages are you referring to? I'll pull them immediately.