Re: Renaming Cygwin DLLs

["Mike Disbrow" <mike_disbrow at hotmail dot com>]

> On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 03:58:39PM -0600, Mike Disbrow wrote:
> >I'd like to build the supporting Cygwin DLLs to be renamed to something
> >other than cyg*.dll (e.g.  cygwin1.dll to foo.dll), what is the best
> >way to build the DLLs with different names?
>
> May I ask why you want to do this?  I can't think of any valid reason to
> rename the DLL which would not involve trying to mask the existence of
> Cygwin.  And, I can't think of any reason for doing that which does not
> involve either bypassing Cygwin's GPL or trying to take credit for a DLL
> which you didn't develop.
The motive isn't that sinister.  We'll be deploying Cygwin's X Server to 
users and don't want the users to know whose X Server we're using.  In fact, 
we're doing all we can to hide the fact that the application they're using 
is running through X.  By changing the dll names we hope to make it a little 
harder for someone to determine we're using Cygwin's X Server so they don't 
get the source, and modify it in some malicious way.

- Mike



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