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RE: Things you can do with Cygwin
- To: <cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- Subject: RE: Things you can do with Cygwin
- From: "Norman Vine" <nhv at cape dot com>
- Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 15:21:04 -0400
- Reply-To: <nhv at cape dot com>
>> Actually, I think it's even a bit less restrictive than that. I
>> believe that you can sell an application that depends on CygWin,
>> even as a closed-source proprietary program.
>
>No, this is just plain wrong. When you build an application with
>cygwin, part of cygwin itself is statically linked into the
>application. The application is GPL at that point.
>
I find this discussion very interesting and I hope others do not
find it a waste of bandwidth.
I would venture that legally you could link against a propriatary
DLL that you distributed separately ( and perhaps sold )
and still use Cygwin for the rest of the application.
Norman Vine
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