Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com X-Authentication-Warning: eos.vss.fsi.com: ford owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 15:10:55 -0500 (CDT) From: Brian Ford X-X-Sender: ford@eos To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: merging mingw and cygwin In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <20031011001648.GG2659@mdssirds.comp.pge.com> <6.0.0.22.0.20031012123242.01d10978@mail.chariot.net.au> <20031012052757.GB12191@mdssirds.comp.pge.com> <1065936902.844.19.camel@localhost> <20031012062347.GA12677@mdssirds.comp.pge.com> <20031013190000.GB20245@mdssirds.comp.pge.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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/ -- Brian Ford Senior Realtime Software Engineer VITAL - Visual Simulation Systems FlightSafety International Phone: 314-551-8460 Fax: 314-551-8444 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/