system lags and dysfunctional after cygwin update
Yaakov Selkowitz
yselkowitz@cygwin.com
Fri May 13 16:41:00 GMT 2016
On 2016-05-13 10:38, Warren Young wrote:
> On May 13, 2016, at 8:02 AM, Ben Altman wrote:
>> I am not sure what is involved in packaging ksh with Cygwin
>> I was under the impression that if the licensing wasn't GNU it would be a
>> problem even though it is open source.
>
> Not exactly. The license merely has to be *compatible* with the GPL as far
> as binary distribution goes, since the binaries distributed in the Cygwin
> package repo are linked to cygwin1.dll, which is GPLâd.
Please review: https://cygwin.com/licensing.html
Cygwin's license contains a linking exception for software licensed
under terms which satisfy the Open Source Definition
<https://opensource.org/osd>. For our purposes, a good reference is
<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:Main>.
> But after taking a peek at the AST license, itâs pretty clear itâs incompatible
> with the GPL.
True, but it is Open Source and therefore would be acceptable.
--
Yaakov
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