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From: Andrew Markebo <flognat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Gary Oberbrunner <garyo@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: usage of zsh for profit?
Date: 06 Feb 2002 23:13:53 +0100
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And the endless discussion begins.. 

| But it's actually a cygwin program, at least on Windows, right?

Depends on how they port it.. probably

| Aren't all cygwin programs GPLed because of cygwin1.dll?  Now as to

Well you actually can compile a program with cygwin gcc and skip
cygwin1.dll, but probably not in this case.. 

| whether including a GPL program in your commercial product is OK I

Well it is ok, as long as you provide the source to the stuff using
cygwin1.dll, zsh in this case, and the cygwin1.dll source too of
course.. If I am not completely off in my readings..

Earlier you could buy/fix a license from redhat to use cygwin1.dll
commercially, without needing to send sources.. No idea how it is
today.

        /Andy
-- 
 The eye of the beholder rests on the beauty!

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