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- To: "'cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com'" <cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- Subject: licensing terms
- From: NOE Nicolas <n dot noe at cstb dot fr>
- Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2000 17:43:05 +0200
Hello,
I've seen that Cygwin licensing terms are :
>The Cygwin API library found in the winsup subdirectory of the source code
is
>also covered by the GNU GPL. By default, all executables link against this
>library (and in the process include GPL'd Cygwin glue code). This means
that
>unless you modify the tools so that compiled executables do not make use of
>the Cygwin library, your compiled programs will also have to be free
software
>distributed under the GPL with source code available to all.
Does that mean there is no way to sell a product (executable, without the
source code) that's been built using gcc & cygwin ? In fact, I cannot see
clearly what "Cygwin library" means, does it just mean "cygwin1.dll" or
everything ?
Nicolas
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