CygWin GPLing by proxy (Was: Cannot display through rsh)

[Steinar Bang]

>>>>> Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu>:

[snip!]
> Unfortunately, you wouldn't be able to distribute the resulting
> application, because anything linked with cygwin1.dll automatically
> becomes GPLd.  If you could find an open-source JDK, this problem
> would not arise.

IANAL, but... can this be right?

If I write an application for UNIX/linux and make it available under
some other license than GPL, and someone else ports it to CygWin, I
don't see how this would automatically make my application be GPL'd?

An in any case, this would only apply to the JDK in this case.  A Java
application running inside the JDK shouldn't be affected in any way.

Ah well.  Off-topic I guess.  And it isn't even Friday anymore.