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Date:	Mon, 13 Oct 2003 15:10:55 -0500 (CDT)
From:	Brian Ford <ford AT vss DOT fsi DOT com>
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On Mon, 13 Oct 2003, Andrew DeFaria wrote:

> The only way I think you can truly accomplish what you want is to
> effectively do all the work that Cygwin has already done, by hand,
> recoding it so as not to be stealing, and release your runtime license
> free or on the "Artist" license like Perl. You'd still have the
> dependency and your target machines would need this "magic" dll but
> you'd be freed from the licensing requirements.
>
> Good luck! Let us know when you're finished with the project! :-)
>
I think it was called PW32, and AFAICS, it'd dead. :)

http://pw32.sourceforge.net/

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