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LGPL is compatible with Cygwin's license (GPL+exceptions)

LGPL is compatible with Cygwin's license (GPL+exceptions)

Posted Nov 23, 2008 0:16 UTC (Sun) by vonbrand (subscriber, #4458)
In reply to: LGPL is compatible with Cygwin's license (GPL+exceptions) by giraffedata
Parent article: MinGW and why Linux users should care

The Red Hat people must have done their assignment before distributing the library under this license... and they are careful with legal stuff.

In any case, it is not the license which restricts distribution, it is copyright law. All the license does is allow you to do stuff the law forbids.


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