Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.0.20000808111440.00b2b510@mail.38north.com> X-Sender: johnm@mail.38north.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 11:20:32 -0600 To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com From: John McClenning Subject: Re: licensing terms In-Reply-To: <200008081604.MAA26744@envy.delorie.com> References: <47D5B138DD8DD311B95100902787500E16F034@cervin.grenoble.cstb.fr> <47D5B138DD8DD311B95100902787500E16F034@cervin.grenoble.cstb.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed At 12:04 PM 8/8/00 -0400, you wrote: > > Does that mean there is no way to sell a product (executable, > > without the source code) that's been built using gcc & cygwin ? In > > fact, I cannot see clearly what "Cygwin library" means, does it just > > mean "cygwin1.dll" or everything ? > [..SNIP..] >As for what "Cygwin Library" is, it's talking about libcygwin.a, that >part of cygwin that is actually linked into your .exe. Although >cygwin1.dll is also GPL'd. If the application is built the -mno-cygwin option, is libcygwin.a left out of the .exe? If so, could you then legally distribute your binary without source? John -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com