Re: [Aspell-user] aspell windows build

[Thorsten Maerz]

Hi Mahesh,

On Mon, 14 Oct 2002 16:59:52 +0530 Mahesh T Pai <address@hidden>
wrote:

> Thorsten Maerz wrote:
>   > http://cygwin.com/licensing.html
>   >
>   >> 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.
>
> I have put up an unmodified version of the cygwin dll. 
> [...] 
> That meas, it is sufficient for me to point out that cygwin is
> covered by GPL, and point to the cygwin's web site for sources - GPL -
> 3 (c).

If the text was
  "If you distribute a modified version of the DLL"
you would be right IMO, but it reads
  "If you distribute a (possibly modified) version of the DLL"

This sounds to me like:
It is possible to modify the cygwin1.dll, but regardless if you did so,
you have to provide the source code.

I am neither a lawyer nor a member of cygnus/redhat, but I found a
reply from a cygwin FAQ maintainer regarding this subject:
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=de&lr=&ie=UTF-8&threadm=a6oa83%24j2s%241%40FreeBSD.csie.NCTU.edu.tw&rnum=24&prev=/groups%3Fnum%3D100%26hl%3Dde%26lr%3D%26ie%3DISO-8859-1%26scoring%3Dd%26q%3Dcygwin%2Bdll%2Bprovide%2Bsource%2BOR%2Bship%2BOR%2Bdistribute%26btnG%3DGoogle-Suche

HTH
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Thorsten Maerz          <address@hidden>
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