Mail Archives: cygwin/2003/05/05/12:56:42
Christopher Faylor wrote:
> If you are going to be using cygwin to produce commercial applications
> you must include the source code to your application and possibly to the
> cygwin DLL when you distribute the product.
I2ANAL, but..
Let me expand on that above statement: if you ship software that is
compiled and linked against cygwin1.dll (or any other component of
Cygwin) such that you need those DLLs at runtime to load and run your
product, _then_ the above applies.
If you're simply using Cygwin tools in your build and/or engineering
process, but compiling with native compilers (Visual C++, or the Mingw
GCC that only links against standard Windows libraries, or, like we are,
pure Java products compiled with the Sun JDK, etc.; i.e. not shipping
any part of Cygwin with your product), then you are not affected by this
particular clause.
(Or, of course, if your products are never distributed outside your
company, that's fine, too, but *any* distribution, free or commercial,
of code linked against Cygwin libraries, will require you to follow the
GPL instructions).
--
Shankar.
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