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RE: About Cygwin license
- From: "Hughes, Bill" <Bill dot Hughes at cox dot co dot uk>
- To: "'cygwin at cygwin dot com'" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 14:46:03 -0000
- Subject: RE: About Cygwin license
Sent: 11 December 2003 14:28 From: Igor Pechtchanski
> Common sense dictates that socket connections cannot be thought of as
> "linking" (which is what the GPL covers). After all, connecting with a
> proprietary ssh client to a GPL'd ssh daemon on Linux doesn't make the
> client GPL'd (AFAIK). Now, if your program is actually linked to some of
> PostgreSQL DLLs, that's a whole different story...
Isn't PostgreSQL under a BSD license anyway so that wouldn't be a worry
either...
unless this is a Cygwin dll for PostgreSQL?
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