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Re: [ANN] Cygwin DEV survey
- To: cygwin users <cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com>
- Subject: Re: [ANN] Cygwin DEV survey
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd@yahoo.com>
- Date: Sun, 7 Mar 1999 19:09:02 -0800 (PST)
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---Chris Faylor <cgf@cygnus.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Mar 08, 1999 at 12:33:11AM +0100, Stipe Tolj wrote:
> >As you mentioned in an later mail, RedHat and SuSE are themselves
> >distributed under GPL, but they had (in some cases even still do)
> >distribute software which sources are not freely available, think
of Qt
> >from Troll Tech or the famous XForms lib.
>
> This is possible to do with linux. It isn't possible with cygwin.
>
> If a program is built using the cygwin stub library (-lcygwin) it
*must*
> be GPLed. This is not an optional thing. It's a legal requirement.
>
> This is, of course, not the case for either the linux kernel or the
> linux C library.
>
Which is the reason for the birth of Mingw32.
==
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