RE: Debug of Test 15 (cgf input needed)

[Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>]

 I would consider thread dead.  let's put it this way the sources of
Cygwin/Xfree86 will always be available at Cygwin/XFree86 URL. My aim was to
provide an open source project, which Chris Faylor sopnsored because we will
always provide sources with pre-compiled binaries. If you redistribute the
precompiled binaries and include Cygwin1.dll, you must satisfy Cygwin1.dll
license requirements.  This thread is dead, any further issues regarding
Cygwin1.dll license should not addressed to this list but sent to relevant
list.

Suhaib

-----Original Message-----
From: Christopher Faylor
To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
Sent: 4/8/2001 7:50 PM
Subject: Re: Debug of Test 15 (cgf input needed)

On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 09:07:38AM +1000, Robert Collins wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Suhaib Siddiqi [mailto:ssiddiqi@inspirepharm.com]
>> Sent: Monday, April 09, 2001 8:46 AM
>> Cc: 'cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com '
>> Subject: RE: Debug of Test 15 (cgf input needed)
>> 
>>XFree sources are not GPL'ed but are available from Cygwin/XFree86 FTP
>>server.  Read the URL please how to download sources.  There is no
>>setup.exe at present.  The binaries are under GPL because they link to
>>Cygwin1.dll,
>
>The binaries are not under the GPL.  If they were, the source would be
>under GPL as well.  Redhat grants an exception for software that is
>under a open source licence such as XFree86 so that they do not need to
>be GPL'd.

What's this?  Someone has actually read the Cygwin license agreement?

>>therefore sources are available, but sources itself are under X
>>COnsortium license, that means you do whatever you can, if you can
>>compile it without linking to Cygwin1.dll, then your binaries are
under
>>X Consortium License too.
>
>If your source is under the X licence, you can link to cygwin1.dll
>withouth being infected.  (or at least this is what I understand from
>Corinna's comments last week).

This is basically true.  I went to great effort to modify the Cygwin
license a couple of years ago during one of the great GPL flame wars.
DJ and I came up with additional wording that I thought would satisfy
anyone except someone who didn't want to provide the sources.  I got
clearance from Cygnus's CEO to allow the greater flexibility.  I thought
I was doing the community a favor by relaxing the Cygwin license.

I guess it is not as much of a favor as I thought if we are still
wrangling about this two years later.

cgf