From: hgeleff AT spidernet DOT com DOT cy (Henrik Geleff)
Subject: Re: GNU compilers, new Cygnus license wories.
12 Jul 1997 14:08:32 -0700
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Jan-Jaap van der Heijden wrote:

> ...

> It is allowed to use GCC, as part of the GNUPro toolkit, with
> cygwin.dll.
> But, once I modify GCC, it is no longer part of the "GNUPro_Toolkit
> produced by Cygnus Solutions", and I am not allowed to use it with
> cygwin.dll. This effectively limits my freedom to modify GCC
> and distribute modified copies. An example of such a modified GCC is
> the "mingw32" project.
>
mingw32 does not use cygwin.dll, mingw32 replaces it and in fact reduces
the memory requirements of small GUI applications as well as speeding
the load time.

I have not read the license in detail, but mingw32 avoids the quoted
clauses.

Regards

Henrik Geleff

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