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On 2/7/2012 3:12 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>
> There's the usual misconception about the GPL.  If you create an
> application which is linked against the Cygwin DLL (or any other GPLed
> library), but you only use the application in-house, there's no reason
> at all to distribute the source code to your collegues.  If one of them
> really wants it, he can always ask you, right?  Only if you provide the
> binaries to customers or to the world in some way, you are supposed to
> provide the sources codes as well in a GPL-compatible way.
>

In a publication I have offered to furnish on request the source code 
and windows executable for a program that I personally run under cygwin. 
  Don't I have to use mingw for the publicly distributed version, or 
else bundle the executable with cygwin source code?   As I understand, 
simply providing a link to the cygwin web site does not satisfy the license.


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