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Re: BogoMIPS
On Mar 7 15:56, Dave Korn wrote:
> On 07 March 2007 15:35, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > Cygwin is under the Cygwin license. If you integrate GPL code, it's
> > GPLed. That's ok for almost everybody, just not for Red Hat. See the
> > last paragraph on http://cygwin.com/licensing.html.
>
> Ah, it's the lack of the exception that causes the problem, am I right?
Yes. Oh well, this has been discussed at greatest possible length in
the last 10 years.
> Does that imply that LGPL'd code would be compatible?
No. Compatible licenses don't restrict the distribution of source code.
That's why we use BSD code when possible and useful.
Corinna
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