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Re: Cygwin and other open source licenses
- From: Marcel Telka <marcel at telka dot sk>
- To: Kasper Nielsen <news at kav dot dk>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2003 11:15:15 +0100
- Subject: Re: Cygwin and other open source licenses
- References: <3E646E17.7090802@kav.dk>
> Hi,
>
> I was just browsing Slashdot and came across this interview with
> Professor Eben Moglen. (see below)
> I'm currently doing a project at my university that uses the
> cygwin.dll
> for windows compatibility.
> My project is licensed under some special open source university
> license
> like most universities has.
> However after having read the interview it seems to me that I'm
> violating the license by not using the GPL for my work but some other
> open source license with my university requires.
> Am I right?
If you want to distribute your software in source code form only and
sources for cygwin1.dll are not a part of the distribution, then you are
free to chose any license you want (including proprietary) for your
software.
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