From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dmitry Alexandrov 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 19:25:07 +0300 Message-ID: References: <3364bc82b7660df3ae8613cdadef8b9dac2fe416.camel@korwin-zmijowski.fr> <83wo2teag4.fsf@gnu.org> <87ft9hnzqp.fsf@web.de> <20200724115042.GA305613@spikycactus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="11768"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: guile-user@gnu.org, help-guix@gnu.org To: Mike Gran Original-X-From: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 24 18:26:24 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 1jz0We-0002xE-6r for guile-user@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 24 Jul 2020 18:26:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54352 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jz0Wd-0002Do-5i for guile-user@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 24 Jul 2020 12:26:23 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:51114) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jz0Vi-0002DZ-La; Fri, 24 Jul 2020 12:25:26 -0400 Original-Received: from relay-1.mailobj.net ([213.182.54.6]:53648) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jz0Vg-0007Sb-U5; Fri, 24 Jul 2020 12:25:26 -0400 Original-Received: from v-1c.localdomain (unknown [192.168.90.161]) by relay-1.mailobj.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 69CB9129B; Fri, 24 Jul 2020 18:25:19 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by mail-1.net-c.com [213.182.54.15] with ESMTP Fri, 24 Jul 2020 18:25:19 +0200 (CEST) X-EA-Auth: Ly6d+mQEIFQXbP7y7I5ngxbC6I194txafW6PyVV8TeD9fSvI+WLnd1r05iQqkQsuGN03fZwN0nwtckidSpH37Nn6lQ5cAQ74 In-Reply-To: <20200724115042.GA305613@spikycactus.com> (Mike Gran's message of "Fri, 24 Jul 2020 04:50:42 -0700") OpenPGP: id=525F7E60AD812C2361752BB4C8B0F8548EE7F3E7; url=https://openpgpkey.gnui.org/.well-known/openpgpkey/gnui.org/hu/hr4k5tkxm6shwdc18su4bkm34w3dctjd Mail-Copies-To: always Received-SPF: pass client-ip=213.182.54.6; envelope-from=dag@gnui.org; helo=relay-1.mailobj.net X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: First seen = 2020/07/24 12:25:19 X-ACL-Warn: Detected OS = Linux 3.1-3.10 X-Spam_score_int: -28 X-Spam_score: -2.9 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H2=-1, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham 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:16742 gmane.comp.gnu.guix.user:10027 Archived-At: --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain 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. --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iIMEARYIACsWIQRSX35grYEsI2F1K7TIsPhUjufz5wUCXxsLYw0cZGFnQGdudWku b3JnAAoJEMiw+FSO5/PnlTUA/jSn41IE2nIJ9kAnNmVs4lBxfXIrSCTSu1uhSaVB iCfqAQChDdD5F9kitLFum9Z2w+yfaKYp2o4t+IhNvPNcz86QDA== =VIw8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--