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On Sep 29 20:32, Luke Kendall wrote:Corinna Vinschen wrote:I don't think my four questions asked for legal advice,So, sure, Red Hat *could* do that, but that would mean to take over responsibility for something which is in the responsibility of the user in the first place. Eventually only a lawyer can make sure you comply, but, apart from the responsibility, the job of a lawyer isn't exactly for free. So this is a job to redirect to *your* legal department.
In a way, yes. Licensing is dangerous territory. If we claim there's no exception from A and somebody find that exception, it's a sure way to be sued. I, for one, can do without that.
As an engineer, [...]
As a lawyer, [...]
I'm with you on the engineering side, since I hate to reinvent the wheel same as you do. However, this isn't technical, this is legal and as such I stay away as much as possible.
I can't see anything in http://cygwin.com/licensing.html that says Cygwin can't be used for commercial purposes (thank goodness!). Maybe you meant something else.As for licenses with commercial exceptions, personally (IANAL, and I'm not speaking for Red Hat, nor for the Cygwin community at large, nor did I actually search for it) I think there is none in the distro, except for the Cygwin license itself.
And that only applies to exceptions from the GPL.
You ignored the above sentence, which was the important one.
Corinna
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