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Re: compile ncurses "hello world" to run independent of cygwin?
- From: Darik Horn <dajhorn at vanadac dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2015 10:34:31 -0500
- Subject: Re: compile ncurses "hello world" to run independent of cygwin?
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On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 10:14 AM, Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> The last time I checked (a few years ago), my understanding was the
> cygwin dll's were licensed such that any programs using them had to be
> GPL (or equivalent).
>
> Is that wrong?
No, that is still the case:
* https://cygwin.com/licensing.html
> If so, anyone wanting to write a commercial tool has to avoid the
> cygwin's core dll's.
Or buy a license.
> Does using mingw do so?
No, it is easier to avoid GPL obligations by using the MinGW runtime:
* http://www.mingw.org/license
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