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| author | Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de> | 2016-05-24 11:16:39 +0200 |
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| committer | Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de> | 2016-06-23 10:09:17 +0200 |
| commit | 6e623e9320d25b1f0c2ad0c2ed581ec5dcb85c50 (patch) | |
| tree | a9681e8b6cd66f0f1dc3f2f164141ef7fa064cea /winsup/doc/overview.xml | |
| parent | 94e3a561d053ca1b00f16d81d4ade2884ea45b54 (diff) | |
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Switching the Cygwin DLL to LGPLv3+, dropping commercial buyout optioncygwin-2_5_2-release
Bump GPLv2+ to GPLv3+ for some files, clarify BSD 2-clause.
Everything else stays under GPLv3+.
New Linking Exception exempts resulting executables from LGPLv3 section 4.
Add CONTRIBUTORS file to keep track of licensing.
Remove 'Copyright Red Hat Inc' comments.
Signed-off-by: Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'winsup/doc/overview.xml')
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1 files changed, 5 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/winsup/doc/overview.xml b/winsup/doc/overview.xml index 1086c01c2..6fb759f45 100644 --- a/winsup/doc/overview.xml +++ b/winsup/doc/overview.xml @@ -45,17 +45,11 @@ parts are covered by the standard <ulink url="http://www.x.org/Downloads_terms.html">X11 license</ulink>, some of it is public domain, some of it was written by Red Hat and placed under the <ulink url="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html">GNU General Public -License</ulink> (GPL). None of it is shareware. You don't have to pay anyone to -use it but you should be sure to read the copyright section of the FAQ for more -information on how the GNU GPL may affect your use of these -tools. If you intend to port a proprietary application using the Cygwin -library, you may want the Cygwin proprietary-use license. -For more information about the proprietary-use license, please go to -<ulink url="http://www.redhat.com/services/custom/cygwin/"/>. -Customers of the native Win32 GNUPro should feel free to submit bug -reports and ask questions through Red Hat channels. All other -questions should be sent to the project mailing list -<email>cygwin@cygwin.com</email>.</para> +License</ulink> (GPL) or <ulink url="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html"> +GNU Lesser General Public License</ulink> (LGPL). None of it is shareware. +You don't have to pay anyone to use it but you should be sure to read the +copyright section of the FAQ for more information on how the GNU GPL may +affect your use of these tools.</para> </sect1> |