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Re: Licensing/Installer Questions
On Mar 1 08:58, Michael Banks wrote:
> Hello Corinna,
>
> Thank you for the prompt reply. I'm still a little confused.
>
> 1) Licensing. Could you please explain what "linking against Cygwin" means? I'm guessing that is for trying to port a Unix application to Windows? We're just wanting to use a few of the open-source tools (grep, find, ghostscript, etc.), so I'm guessing we do *not* need to purchase a special license, but we just want to be sure.
Linking in the compiler/linker/runtime-loader sense. Linking against
Cygwin means building an application which relies on functions provided
by the Cygwin library. Roughly, if you application works even if Cygwin
is not present, you're off the hook. If your application refuses to
start without Cygwin, you're not.
> 2) Installer. We could use some specifics on how to comply with the cygwin lincensing.
The installer has nothing to do with licensing. All tools, which
are open-sourced should be accompanied with their respective sources.
The exact style (zip file, tar archive, CD installer, ...) has nothing
to do with the licensing, except that a user should get the sources
the same way as they get the binaries.
As for your specific installer packaging questions, they don't belong to
cygwin-licensing. Please ask this sort of question on the normal cygwin
mailing list <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>.
> On Wednesday, March 01, 2006, at 05:02AM, Corinna Vinschen <XXXXXXX-XXXXXX@XXXXXX.XXX> wrote:
> [...]
Corinna
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