Mail Archives: cygwin/2001/02/14/21:27:07
On Wed, Feb 14, 2001, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
> Btw, if you use Cygwin in an application, the application automatically
> becomes free software. Just so you know.
>
Just so *I* know, isn't the above oversimplified?
If I *distribute* an application linked to cygwin to others, I am obliged
to follow GPL-like rules for the whole application. But simply *using*
cygwin (e.g. to compile some code that expects a Unix environment) for
my own use should not taint the code. Is this not correct?
As a somewhat more realistic example, if I distribute source code under
conditions other than the GPL, and suggest to users that they could use
the cygwin package to compile my code on their Windows machine, would such
a suggestion somehow make the source code free software?
...thanks for any clarification....dac
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