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Cygwin licence #7462

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vicuna opened this issue Jan 16, 2017 · 3 comments
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Cygwin licence #7462

vicuna opened this issue Jan 16, 2017 · 3 comments
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vicuna commented Jan 16, 2017

Original bug ID: 7462
Reporter: @oandrieu
Assigned to: @dra27
Status: resolved (set by @alainfrisch on 2017-01-24T10:59:40Z)
Resolution: fixed
Priority: normal
Severity: minor
Fixed in version: 4.05.0 +dev/beta1/beta2/beta3/rc1
Category: documentation

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The README.win32 file mentions that « Cygwin-generated .exe files refer to a DLL that is distributed under the GPL. Thus, these .exe files can only be distributed under a license that is compatible with the GPL. »

Mind that the Cygwin licence has changed since version 2.5.2 and the cygwin DLL is now licensed under the LGPLv3, with a static linking exception: https://cygwin.com/licensing.html .
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vicuna commented Jan 16, 2017

Comment author: @dra27

Indeed - the change suspiciously coincided with Ubuntu-on-Windows announcement, though apparently they were unrelated!

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vicuna commented Jan 16, 2017

Comment author: @gasche

Olivier, would you send us a patch with a proposed rephrasing of the documentation? It might be nice to for now tell people about the two different versions (or version ranges), instead of just the more convenient most-current state.

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vicuna commented Jan 17, 2017

Comment author: @oandrieu

OK, c.f. #1013 #1013

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