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Re: Licensing of Cygwin comatibility layer (was: No Guile on Windows?)
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Mike Gran |
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Re: Licensing of Cygwin comatibility layer (was: No Guile on Windows?) |
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Fri, 24 Jul 2020 16:33:02 -0700 |
On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 07:25:07PM +0300, Dmitry Alexandrov wrote:
> Mike Gran <spk121@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Cygwin: use gcc or clang, link to a special C and POSIX library that
> > handles the Windows API for you.
> > Its emulation library is GPL[ed]
>
> Really? I was under impression, that it is under a _weakened_ variant of
> _Lesser_ GPL, i. e. its terms are even less restrictive that those of GNU
> libc.
>
> > so to distribute a Cygwin app, it must be GPL[-compatible]
>
> After all, Cygwin itself (just like any other GNU distro) have always
> distributed quite a few of GPL-incompatible software, so that statement does
> not look plausible at all.
You are correct. I misread this page https://cygwin.com/licensing.html
Apologies.
-Mike Gran
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- Re: No Guile on Windows?, Stefan Israelsson Tampe, 2020/07/24
- Re: No Guile on Windows?, Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide, 2020/07/24
- Re: No Guile on Windows?, Dmitry Alexandrov, 2020/07/24
- Re: No Guile on Windows?, Jan Wielkiewicz, 2020/07/24
- Re: No Guile on Windows? (was: My Guile Hacker Handbook), David Pirotte, 2020/07/24
- Re: No Guile on Windows? (was: My Guile Hacker Handbook), Eli Zaretskii, 2020/07/25
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- Re: No Guile on Windows? (was: My Guile Hacker Handbook), Eli Zaretskii, 2020/07/25
- Re: No Guile on Windows? (was: My Guile Hacker Handbook), Christopher Lam, 2020/07/27