From: Michael Campbell <michael_s_campbell@...>
Date: 2003-09-22T23:13:57+09:00
Subject: Re: fork not available?

> Cygwin isn't standard Windows. fork() is not available unless you
> use
> cygwin, which requires that your programs be GPL-compatible. I
> don't
> consider cygwin an acceptable requirement.


I don't want to start this holy war again, but are you saying that if
I write a ruby script that uses fork() and thus requires the cygwin
build to run, it has to be GPL?  I'm honestly curious, as I don't
understand the licensing stuff as well as I should.

thanks



Michael

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