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RE: Licensing terms
- To: 'Corinna Vinschen' <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Subject: RE: Licensing terms
- From: "Clark, Matthew C (FL51)" <matthew dot c dot clark at honeywell dot com>
- Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2001 10:37:07 -0400
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Corinna Vinschen [mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2001 9:17 AM
> To: Clark, Matthew C (FL51)
> Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: Licensing terms
>
> Basically you'll have to release the sources of applications linked
> against Cygwin. Except when
>
> - you never release the application since you're using it only
> internally in your office or so. That's the trivial case.
>
> - you purchase a special Cygwin license from Red Hat. For a
> one time fee per project you may distribute also proprietary
> software linked against Cygwin.
> Visit http://www.redhat.com/products/support/cygwin/ for more
> information.
Ok, thanks for the info. Now for the follow-up. Say I build a
archive library, my_lib.a, based entirely on my own source code
and does NOT link in a GPL library, eg libcygwin.a, though it
does #include standard templates.
ie, gcc -c biff.c ; gcc -c bob.c ; ar -o my_lib.a biff.o bob.o
First, does my_lib.a fall under GPL?
If not, if I distribute my_lib.a binary and a user then uses it to
build an executable under cygwin, where do the "open source"
boundaries lie?
Matt Clark
matthew.c.clark@honeywell.com
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