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RE: Debug of Test 15 (cgf input needed)



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:cgf@redhat.com]
> 
> 
> >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?
> 

Just the web page, and clause 10 of the GPL :]. I felt obligated to
before I started a flame war with Corinna over openSSH and other non-GPL
applications linking with Cygwin1.dll (this list, last week). I had a
sneaking suspicion that reading it was a Good Thing.

I never sent the email I'd started drafting <grin>.

Rob


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