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 Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 08:56:19 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Is it free to use Message-ID: <20040910125619.GC7514@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <414007D6.7DB36622@dessent.net> <20040909135502.GC27325@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <414156C2.4CC8BFDB@dessent.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 12:32:17AM -0700, Andrew DeFaria wrote: >Brian Dessent wrote: > >>The part that causes it to become GPL'd is the linking to cygwin1.dll, >>not the fact that Cygwin's gcc is used. If you use Cygwin's gcc in >>mingw mode then your program does not need cygwin1.dll and the program >>may be released under any license you choose, assuming there are no >>other GPL libraries to which you link. > >That was my assumption. The parts I was a little skeptical about was: 1) >whether using mingw was also GPL In that case you should be checking with the mingw web page. I also have to wonder how, as a long time reader of this list, you could *possibly* have missed the tedious discussion on this point that crops up on an almost weekly basis. cgf (Now someone will follow up with a clarifying thread saying something like: "Good point but what cgf meant by "weekly basis" is that people talk about this every seven days." ) -- 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/