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I made the proposal to add some GPL'd software to Cygwin.
To be more specific, it was ACL related SW from the Linux development. The responsible people from red hat told me that they cannot include such code because read hat only allows them to use code for cygwin that has been written by RH people.
This is devinitive a non GPL friendly behavior. The only reason to behave like this is that RH sells non-GPL versions and thus would get problems with the other code.
I see you point, and your concern, but you do see red hats reasons. A lot of ppl have done similiar things (although just because everyone else does yadda yadda). Even GNU won't include GPL'ed code if they don't own it. The GNU ppl have a document on it - including reasons about being able to protect it better, protecting against various scenarios that I've brought up on this mailing list - that involve reversing a GPL license on software, etc.
JohnFlux