Re: License question about Cygwin

[Elfyn McBratney <elfyn at emcb dot co dot uk>]

On Wed, 16 Jul 2003, Cary Lewis wrote:

> As the Cygwin.dll is licensed under GPL, any "Program" that links to it must
> be released under GPL as well.

Under section 10 of the GPL, if the "program" is OSD compatible then the
"program" is not auto-GPL'd.

> My question is, what if the "Program" also links to proprietary .dlls that
> are authored by someone else. That source can not be published (I don't even
> have access to it). Furthermore these .dlls are not freely available.

Are these DLL's Cygwin DLL's ? i.e. not native Windows DLL's.

> Does that mean that even if I publish all of my source code, I would still
> be violating the GPL because I couldn't publish the source code to the
> proprietary libraries.

Yes.

Elfyn

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