From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Mike Gran Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.user,gmane.comp.gnu.guix.user Subject: Re: Licensing of Cygwin comatibility layer (was: No Guile on Windows?) Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2020 16:33:02 -0700 Message-ID: <20200724233302.GA322473@spikycactus.com> References: <3364bc82b7660df3ae8613cdadef8b9dac2fe416.camel@korwin-zmijowski.fr> <83wo2teag4.fsf@gnu.org> <87ft9hnzqp.fsf@web.de> <20200724115042.GA305613@spikycactus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="39446"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: "Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide" , Eli Zaretskii , guile-user@gnu.org, help-guix@gnu.org To: Dmitry Alexandrov Original-X-From: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Jul 25 01:33:29 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-user@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jz7Bw-000AA3-Na for guile-user@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 25 Jul 2020 01:33:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33016 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jz7Bv-0003ct-AQ for guile-user@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 24 Jul 2020 19:33:27 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:51664) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jz7Bl-0003cW-JV for guile-user@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Jul 2020 19:33:17 -0400 Original-Received: from sonic315-21.consmr.mail.ne1.yahoo.com ([66.163.190.147]:37351) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jz7Bi-0001Sh-W5 for guile-user@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Jul 2020 19:33:17 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yahoo.com; s=s2048; t=1595633592; bh=LF2VNfyWSBOWe6cH4lJwUJ3RFfWrR3Nenna6I6ksFo0=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From:Subject; b=PJAPCGhRJ9XLRrZ0sylDo7hTe3JH0vr5gP7JeKAv/IW4D7qQcfVOBDSn28GGgrf3FN4/gaDr+3nALK9IKt0iXy61+C20Ex5VwOVJSX1yMUvSOGCD0LYPZDEAlntRX5HoH8mtnb9RNi4T/Yfh/J4Jw2WkiclZ1L6Y7Nd4Tv/miFNuca50cuSIbdZSo+Lh5jdPSN1ORx0P9MUDqC2yZ+WduFYZIPoLfdJC18dAw+SMD8M0oKZ9s5Zkby+oi1rV3RQkZydQSbhKs9ZM9+Aa0NbPZaq+s+HtheHYNnnUGwumcmjz/FpcmESBeVZG/BH+RvAnzYib2G8iCSDPselxNtW5pA== X-YMail-OSG: CcB8WHwVM1kLB_s7Mv1UQRWd5Ji6qy3EXePSPqm.LdWQvUTs7yjAOiR4fA_cgji kQnwyduq5oVrQUKgx12ct1nYis4O5VXWCdvh6lnz3KsZ.QlQq1yrHTx1nvAVoHytonWwbCH.Fszp U4S3BhAbjm9KhzSJAjTpvrF_y.rWLWOXUc_1fqibR8GHCkJL1ZMBJ73aQSkVXlBrik4_qR_neYuE qn8_BITvAx7UV1IqaLUxM8lw67wMvRouWvTgXNOEu_BUc_z6JB8ppyA1X.xrAg3vTj2kgOoG8JHO 0TLk5nKBBXUDZBSN5MINJOZgwl0JjeTIDGt3uADuG9renSBb4QCyKRDL7tRqP0kWvLI1PMUz48JR Jk23KTW710slGarmu8sUIjYpv7nIpDQWshNX.NU0pl._oiXX_hdNwagBFiG.yFnSPDlJC1XiByjQ tzAvwcVqWPv8z4RzKsVXu2UW5kaOTNJw9Dgg0BSFKlT1.3TbicLon6KqQ4CiVJmVTmDTIOs_1TEj fPxwKDj_QH7AXxS_za2VSteff1TAT3MbJ0rVb677AttjNPy6b0G7HHl6Xm9uV0xQtyRPGo5ct7rf rbdvesx7MkbO_9r8GoiowIatYl_zjNG9aXy9YiuN4870PiKJMeiYSgdAVOiQ3qdCG.tEHavKKJ80 P39DckvMzMwOnn.5X6p4_cvN_ip51IN7oDd8b_GoLrbWilYfZW96LoUcjfGL9VSverHkZFRzCfvm mrpzN1U0Cr4pZ73y4ltjDMtfaFu2S1ijxJ_ShP6QE3auVf9Z0XWGxWLoodugOpQek1X.0sgGOtyG gsSEMP69UaRGh.mUDZDPzzqQxzpyrqo.zYRb9VrWds Original-Received: from sonic.gate.mail.ne1.yahoo.com by sonic315.consmr.mail.ne1.yahoo.com with HTTP; Fri, 24 Jul 2020 23:33:12 +0000 Original-Received: by smtp421.mail.gq1.yahoo.com (VZM Hermes SMTP Server) with ESMTPA ID 23dd3f5fa41a50a018bfb94a4a52ab1a; Fri, 24 Jul 2020 23:33:08 +0000 (UTC) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: WebService/1.1.16271 hermes_yahoo Apache-HttpAsyncClient/4.1.4 (Java/11.0.7) Received-SPF: pass client-ip=66.163.190.147; envelope-from=spk121@yahoo.com; helo=sonic315-21.consmr.mail.ne1.yahoo.com X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: First seen = 2020/07/24 19:33:13 X-ACL-Warn: Detected OS = Linux 3.11 and newer [fuzzy] X-Spam_score_int: -27 X-Spam_score: -2.8 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.8 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, FREEMAIL_ENVFROM_END_DIGIT=0.25, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H2=-1, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, URIBL_BLOCKED=0.001 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: guile-user@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: General Guile related discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "guile-user" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.lisp.guile.user:16746 gmane.comp.gnu.guix.user:10037 Archived-At: On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 07:25:07PM +0300, Dmitry Alexandrov wrote: > Mike Gran 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