Re: Cygwin now licensed under GPLv3+

[Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>]

On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 01:37:52PM +1000, Luke Kendall wrote:
>Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> Hi Cygwin friends and users,
>>
>>
>> I'm happy to announce that, effective immediately, Red Hat has
>> relicensed Cygwin from "GNU Public License version 2" (GPLv2) to
>> "GNU Public License version 3 or later" (GPLv3+).
>>
>>   
>
>What does that mean in terms of Cygwin components?

Corinna referenced a page:

http://cygwin.com/licensing.html

which barely changed except to mention GPLv3.  This many-month old email
was just meant to announce that the Cygwin DLL and associated utilities
were moving from GPLv2 to GPLv3.

>Each component normally has its own license, so does the above
>statement mean that things like the Cygwin DLL and other Cygwin-only
>components are under GPLv3?

Red Hat did not suddenly assume the extralegal power to change the
licensing of other packages.

>Is there an explicit list or a precise description of what parts of 
>Cygwin are covered by GPLv3?

You mean like the very web page that you quoted below?

>> The Open Source Licensing Exception persists, as well as the
>> availability of the Cygwin Alternative License, as described on
>> http://cygwin.com/licensing.html