This is the mail archive of the
cygwin-licensing@cygwin.com
mailing list for the cygwin project.
Re: Combining cygwin with non-free portability libraries
On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 01:12:26PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>>What packages are you referring to? I'll pull them immediately.
>
>Well, "cygwin", for one. It links with Windows system DLLs, which are
>most definitely proprietary. I wasn't trying to point to a particular
>package, this was indeed a licensing question -- in what way does the
>above FAQ entry apply to Cygwin packages in general?
This is basic GPL stuff. There is no violation of the package is using
system libraries. Otherwise you couldn't use GPLed packages on HP/UX,
Solaris, Tru64, etc.
"However, as a special exception, the source code distributed need not
include anything that is normally distributed (in either source or
binary form) with the major components (compiler, kernel, and so on) of
the operating system on which the executable runs, unless that component
itself accompanies the executable."