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RE: License?





>
> I'm writing a How-To on installation, and I would like to include a blurb
> about the license that Cygwin/XFree is distributed under; I have not been
> able to find this information on the web site.  Do you use the GPL or X

Sources are under X license.

But binaries are under GPL because they get linked to libcygwin.a.  If you
can compile
sources without linking to libcygwin.a then your binaries would be under X
license too.

> license?  What license does the DirectX server use?  Thanks,

X for sources only, not binaries.  Binaries are provided as a service to
comunity.
Suhaib

>
> Harold L Hunt II
> Phone: 800-850-1616 ext 108
> Email: harold@compasstechnologies.com


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