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Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2012 10:09:58 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Documentation on -mno-cygwin Accuracy
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On Wed, Feb 08, 2012 at 12:24:39AM -0600, carolus wrote:
>On 2/7/2012 11:58 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
>> Actually, you can easily bundle a program with the Cygwin DLL and have
>> it work fine.
>
>I confess to doing that for a while, until I learned about -mno-cygwin, 
>but is that not a license violation?  My understanding is that in order 
>to conform to the license you must include the cygwin source code in the 
>bundle.

You really should read the GPL.

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