From: Mike Gran <spk121@yahoo.com>
To: Dmitry Alexandrov <dag@gnui.org>
Cc: "Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide" <arne_bab@web.de>,
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
guile-user@gnu.org, help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Licensing of Cygwin comatibility layer (was: No Guile on Windows?)
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2020 16:33:02 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200724233302.GA322473@spikycactus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <pn8kswws.dag@gnui.org>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-07-24 23:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-07-23 6:18 My Guile Hacker Handbook Jérémy Korwin-Zmijowski
2020-07-23 6:46 ` test anything? (Re: My Guile Hacker Handbook) Marc Chantreux
2020-07-23 15:08 ` a French mailing list (was: test anything? (Re: My Guile Hacker Handbook)) Dmitry Alexandrov
2020-07-23 20:34 ` Marc Chantreux
2020-07-23 7:41 ` My Guile Hacker Handbook Zelphir Kaltstahl
2020-07-23 9:17 ` Jérémy Korwin-Zmijowski
2020-07-23 10:32 ` Bonface M. K.
2020-07-23 14:09 ` Jérémy Korwin-Zmijowski
2020-07-24 0:58 ` Bonface M. K.
2020-07-24 0:06 ` No Guile on Windows? (was: My Guile Hacker Handbook) Dmitry Alexandrov
2020-07-24 5:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-07-24 7:22 ` Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
2020-07-24 9:32 ` Christopher Lam
2020-07-24 11:50 ` Mike Gran
2020-07-24 16:25 ` Licensing of Cygwin comatibility layer (was: No Guile on Windows?) Dmitry Alexandrov
2020-07-24 23:33 ` Mike Gran [this message]
[not found] ` <878sf9812f.fsf@gnu.org>
2020-07-24 14:20 ` No Guile on Windows? Stefan Israelsson Tampe
2020-07-24 17:46 ` Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
2020-07-24 17:47 ` Dmitry Alexandrov
2020-07-24 18:41 ` Jan Wielkiewicz
2020-07-25 3:48 ` No Guile on Windows? (was: My Guile Hacker Handbook) David Pirotte
2020-07-25 6:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-07-25 13:56 ` Christopher Lam
2020-07-25 14:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-07-28 2:52 ` Christopher Lam
2020-07-25 16:49 ` Mike Gran
2020-07-25 16:33 ` Jérémy Korwin-Zmijowski
2020-07-25 21:38 ` No Guile on Windows? Dmitry Alexandrov
2020-07-24 6:47 ` No Guile on Windows? (was: My Guile Hacker Handbook) divoplade
2020-07-24 11:38 ` Stefan Israelsson Tampe
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