On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 10:14 AM, Greg Freemyer <greg.freem...@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 -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
