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authorDavid Starks-Browning <starksb@ebi.ac.uk>2003-01-14 00:06:12 +0300
committerDavid Starks-Browning <starksb@ebi.ac.uk>2003-01-14 00:06:12 +0300
commit337e9503bbda13a4b039f3ca30a7ac2d3ca27a72 (patch)
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parentd3939f963afde1c2225c835da6fb542ea1b6dce5 (diff)
Reformatting.
New location for Open Source Definition.
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Most of the tools are covered by the GNU General Public License (GPL),
although some are public domain, and others have a X11-style
-copyright. To cover the GNU GPL
-requirements, the basic rule is if you give out any binaries, you must
-also make the source available. For the full details, be sure to
-read the text of the GNU GPL which follows.
-
-The Cygwin API library found in the winsup subdirectory of the
-source code is also covered by the GNU GPL. By default, all
-executables link against this library (and in the process include GPL'd
-Cygwin glue code). This means that unless you modify the tools
-so that compiled executables do not make use of the Cygwin library,
-your compiled programs will also have to be free software distributed
-under the GPL with source code available to all.
+copyright. To cover the GNU GPL requirements, the basic rule is if
+you give out any binaries, you must also make the source available.
+For the full details, be sure to read the text of the GNU GPL which
+follows.
+
+The Cygwin API library found in the winsup subdirectory of the source
+code is also covered by the GNU GPL. By default, all executables link
+against this library (and in the process include GPL'd Cygwin glue
+code). This means that unless you modify the tools so that compiled
+executables do not make use of the Cygwin library, your compiled
+programs will also have to be free software distributed under the GPL
+with source code available to all.
Cygwin is currently available for proprietary use only through a
proprietary-use license. Please see
@file{http://www.redhat.com/software/cygwin/} for more information
about the Red Hat Cygwin Product.
-In accordance with section 10 of the GPL, Red Hat, Inc. permits programs whose
-sources are distributed under a license that complies with the Open
-Source definition to be linked with libcygwin.a without libcygwin.a
-itself causing the resulting program to be covered by the GNU GPL.
+In accordance with section 10 of the GPL, Red Hat, Inc. permits
+programs whose sources are distributed under a license that complies
+with the Open Source definition to be linked with libcygwin.a without
+libcygwin.a itself causing the resulting program to be covered by the
+GNU GPL.
This means that you can port an Open Source(tm) application to cygwin,
and distribute that executable as if it didn't include a copy of
-libcygwin.a linked into it. Note that this does not apply to the cygwin
-DLL itself. If you distribute a (possibly modified) version of the DLL
-you must adhere to the terms of the GPL, i.e., you must provide sources
-for the cygwin DLL.
+libcygwin.a linked into it. Note that this does not apply to the
+cygwin DLL itself. If you distribute a (possibly modified) version of
+the DLL you must adhere to the terms of the GPL, i.e., you must
+provide sources for the cygwin DLL.
-See http://www.opensource.org/osd.html for the precise Open Source
-Definition referenced above.
+See @file{http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition_plain.html} for
+the precise Open Source Definition referenced above.
@section GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
@example