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CygWin GPLing by proxy (Was: Cannot display through rsh)
- From: Steinar Bang <sb at dod dot no>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2003 08:21:08 +0200
- Subject: CygWin GPLing by proxy (Was: Cannot display through rsh)
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>>>>> Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu>:
[snip!]
> Unfortunately, you wouldn't be able to distribute the resulting
> application, because anything linked with cygwin1.dll automatically
> becomes GPLd. If you could find an open-source JDK, this problem
> would not arise.
IANAL, but... can this be right?
If I write an application for UNIX/linux and make it available under
some other license than GPL, and someone else ports it to CygWin, I
don't see how this would automatically make my application be GPL'd?
An in any case, this would only apply to the JDK in this case. A Java
application running inside the JDK shouldn't be affected in any way.
Ah well. Off-topic I guess. And it isn't even Friday anymore.